Fund · iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Japan ETF · measured from SEC filings
HEWJ holdings
HEWJ reports 5 holdings and behaves like 1 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-05-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.
Measured concentration
as of 2026-05-31Read this figure with the following in mind
98.2% 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: 98.25% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.
What stands out
as of 2026-05-31The largest line in HEWJ's filing is not a stock but Ishares Msci Japan ETF, a fund position at 98.28% of net assets. Ten companies are 100% of the fund; the other -5 share the rest. Among the 12 unknown funds measured here, HEWJ behaves like 1 holdings against a median of 3.2 — 3.2 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings HEWJ has held roughly steady since 2019-11-30 (1 then, 1 now).
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 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, HEWJ went from behaving like 1 equally weighted positions to 1 — 0% more, while its top ten went from 99.98% to 100% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 5 | 1 | 100% | 98.21% |
| 2026-02-28 | 9 | 1 | 100% | 98.41% |
| 2025-11-30 | 9 | 1 | 100% | 98.33% |
| 2025-08-31 | 3 | 1 | 100% | 99.94% |
| 2025-05-31 | 7 | 1 | 100% | 98.76% |
| 2025-02-28 | 7 | 1 | 100% | 99.79% |
| 2024-11-30 | 5 | 1 | 100% | 98.81% |
| 2024-08-31 | 15 | 1 | 100% | 99.53% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-31 | 10 | 1 | 100% | 99.41% |
| 2024-02-29 | 19 | 1.1 | 100% | 97.49% |
| 2023-11-30 | 13 | 1 | 100% | 99.78% |
| 2023-08-31 | 15 | 1.1 | 100% | 94.91% |
| 2023-05-31 | 9 | 1.1 | 100% | 96.63% |
| 2023-02-28 | 9 | 1.1 | 100% | 95.06% |
| 2022-11-30 | 9 | 1 | 100% | 98.97% |
| 2022-08-31 | 14 | 1.1 | 99.99% | 94.64% |
| 2022-05-31 | 8 | 1 | 100% | 99.93% |
| 2022-02-28 | 8 | 1 | 100% | 99.92% |
| 2021-11-30 | 5 | 1 | 100% | 99.97% |
| 2021-08-31 | 11 | 1 | 100% | 99.69% |
| 2021-05-31 | 14 | 1 | 99.99% | 99.29% |
| 2021-02-28 | 9 | 1 | 100% | 98.14% |
| 2020-11-30 | 9 | 1 | 100% | 99.93% |
| 2020-08-31 | 7 | 1 | 100% | 99.71% |
| 2020-05-31 | 18 | 1 | 99.98% | 98.3% |
| 2020-02-29 | 15 | 1.1 | 99.99% | 97.43% |
| 2019-11-30 | 15 | 1 | 99.98% | 98.95% |
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 2026-05-31The 3 largest of 5 positions in HEWJ's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: HEWJ.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | iShares, Inc - iShares MSCI Japan ETF | 98.21% | 98.2% |
| 2 | U S DOLLARS | 1.75% | 100.0% |
| 3 | BlackRock Funds III: BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury; SL Agency Shares | 0.04% | 100.0% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-09 – 2026-05Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of HEWJ'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 — percentage points over 0 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: HEWJ.json · all funds.
Who borrows HEWJ's shares
2026-02-28The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-02-28, $170m was out to 2 borrowers, 27.16% of net assets. The largest, GOLDMAN SACHS & CO., held 87.5% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. | $149m | 87.5% |
| MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC | $21m | 12.5% |
Cash collateral reported against the loan: 27.73% of net assets, 102.1% of the amount lent. That is a floor on the collateral, not the whole of it — collateral the fund does not hold as a position is not in this filing, so a figure under 100% is not evidence of under-collateralisation. How that figure behaves across all funds. Every quarter HEWJ has filed, with each borrower: HEWJ.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-02-28 → 2026-05-313 positions became 3: 0 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: 0.3%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of HEWJ compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.
| Largest increases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 | Largest decreases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U S DOLLARS | 1.48% | 1.75% | iShares, Inc - iShares MSCI Japan ETF | 98.41% | 98.21% |
| BlackRock Funds III: BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury; SL Agen | 0.11% | 0.04% |
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-05-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| unknown unknown | 98.21% |
| DFE DFE | 1.75% |
| short-term investment STIV | 0.04% |
98.3% of HEWJ 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 HEWJ (1). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HEFA iShares Currency Hedged MSCI EAFE ETF | 66 | 1 | 99.99% | 2026-07-31 |
| 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 |
Essays that examine HEWJ
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