Fund · iShares Currency Hedged MSCI EAFE ETF · measured from SEC filings
HEFA holdings
HEFA reports 66 holdings and behaves like 1 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-07-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.
Measured concentration
as of 2026-07-31Read this figure with the following in mind
99.1% of net assets carries no asset category in the filing
The figure below is what the filing says, published unchanged. What it may not do is sit beside a plain long-only fund and be read as the same quantity. How comparability is decided.
Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 99.93% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31The largest line in HEFA's filing is not a stock but Ishares Msci Eafe ETF, a fund position at 101.99% of net assets. Ten companies are 99.99% of the fund; the other 56 share the rest. Among the 12 unknown funds measured here, HEFA behaves like 1 holdings against a median of 3.2 — 3.2 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings HEFA has held roughly steady since 2019-10-31 (1 then, 1 now). Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 1 positions were added and 0 dropped; 0.1% of the weight moved.
Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable unknown funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.
Every filing since 2019
27Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, HEFA went from behaving like 1 equally weighted positions to 1 — 0% more, while its top ten went from 99.98% to 99.99% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 85 | 1 | 99.99% | 99.79% |
| 2026-01-31 | 27 | 1 | 100% | 99.92% |
| 2025-10-31 | 41 | 1.1 | 99.95% | 97.58% |
| 2025-07-31 | 108 | 1.1 | 99.88% | 96.55% |
| 2025-04-30 | 157 | 1 | 99.95% | 99.77% |
| 2025-01-31 | 151 | 1 | 99.99% | 99.71% |
| 2024-10-31 | 111 | 1.1 | 99.84% | 95.89% |
| 2024-07-31 | 115 | 1 | 99.97% | 99.68% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | 350 | 1 | 99.83% | 97.82% |
| 2024-01-31 | 82 | 1.1 | 99.92% | 97.25% |
| 2023-10-31 | 105 | 1 | 99.96% | 99.02% |
| 2023-07-31 | 112 | 1 | 99.97% | 99.91% |
| 2023-04-30 | 66 | 1 | 99.98% | 99.23% |
| 2023-01-31 | 64 | 1 | 99.99% | 99.83% |
| 2022-10-31 | 114 | 1 | 99.98% | 99.01% |
| 2022-07-31 | 78 | 1 | 99.98% | 99.03% |
| 2022-04-30 | 78 | 1.1 | 99.73% | 93.87% |
| 2022-01-31 | 154 | 1 | 99.93% | 98.63% |
| 2021-10-31 | 73 | 1 | 99.99% | 99.37% |
| 2021-07-31 | 77 | 1 | 99.99% | 99.76% |
| 2021-04-30 | 66 | 1 | 100% | 99.99% |
| 2021-01-31 | 64 | 1 | 99.99% | 98.96% |
| 2020-10-31 | 100 | 1 | 99.99% | 99.57% |
| 2020-07-31 | 90 | 1 | 99.95% | 99.85% |
| 2020-04-30 | 109 | 1 | 99.89% | 98.69% |
| 2020-01-31 | 112 | 1 | 99.89% | 98.34% |
| 2019-10-31 | 47 | 1 | 99.98% | 99.41% |
One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.
Largest positions, as filed
as of 2026-04-30The 3 largest of 66 positions in HEFA's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: HEFA.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | iShares MSCI EAFE ETF | 99.79% | 99.8% |
| 2 | EURO | 0.14% | 99.9% |
| 3 | BlackRock Funds III: BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury; SL Agency Shares | 0.07% | 100.0% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of HEFA's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| United States | 99.85% |
| Not stated in filing | 0.05% |
| United Kingdom | 0.03% |
| Japan | 0.02% |
| Switzerland | 0.02% |
| Australia | 0.02% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-08 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of HEFA's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.06 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: HEFA.json · all funds.
Who borrows HEFA's shares
2026-07-31The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-07-31, $60m was out to 3 borrowers. The largest, RBC Capital Markets LLC, held 46.5% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| RBC Capital Markets LLC | $28m | 46.5% |
| Wells Fargo Securities LLC | $24m | 40.6% |
| MIZUHO SECURITIES USA, LLC | $8m | 12.9% |
The filing reports no cash collateral position against this loan. Collateral taken in a form the fund does not hold as a position does not appear in N-PORT, so this is silence rather than absence. What the collateral figure can and cannot show. Every quarter HEFA has filed, with each borrower: HEFA.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-01-31 → 2026-04-3014 positions became 15: 1 added (0.0% of the fund at the later date), 0 dropped (0.0% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 0.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of HEFA compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.
| Largest increases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EURO | 0.00% | 0.05% | iShares MSCI EAFE ETF | 99.92% | 99.79% |
| GREAT BRITISH POUND | 0.00% | 0.03% | U S DOLLARS | 0.01% | 0.00% |
| JAPANESE YEN | 0.00% | 0.02% | NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| SWISS FRANC | 0.00% | 0.02% | SINGAPORE DOLLARS | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR | 0.00% | 0.02% | |||
| BlackRock Funds III: BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury; SL Agen | 0.06% | 0.07% |
New: HONG KONG DOLLAR (0.00%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-07-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| unknown unknown | 99.10% |
| short-term investment STIV | 0.82% |
| DFE DFE | 0.07% |
99.9% of HEFA is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.
Neighbours by effective holdings, unknown funds
7Every measured unknown fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of HEFA (1). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HEWJ iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Japan ETF | 5 | 1 | 100% | 2026-05-31 |
| HEZU iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Eurozone ETF | 5 | 1 | 100% | 2026-05-31 |
| BITO ProShares Bitcoin ETF | 5 | 1.2 * | 100% | 2026-05-31 |
| SH ProShares Short S&P500 | 8 | 1.6 * | 100% | 2026-05-31 |
| SDS ProShares UltraShort S&P500 | 10 | 2 * | 100% | 2026-05-31 |
| PSQ ProShares Short QQQ | 9 | 2.5 * | 100% | 2026-05-31 |
| AOK iShares Core 30/70 Conservative Allocation ETF | 8 | 2.6 | 100% | 2026-07-31 |
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