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IEFA holdings

IEFA reports 2,630 holdings and behaves like 267.8 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 2026-07-31

Read this figure with the following in mind

1.0% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 261.7

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.

2,630 Positions reported
267.8 Effective holdings
9.8× Concentration multiple
11.97% Top ten weight

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: 3.98% at a quoted market price (level 1), 30 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

IEFA's largest investment is ASML Holding NV at 2.21% of net assets. HSBC Holdings PLC and Astrazeneca PLC follow; the three together are 4.62%. Ten companies are 11.97% of the fund; the other 2,620 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, IEFA behaves like 267.8 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 6.3 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings IEFA has become more concentrated: it behaved like 363.3 at 2019-10-31 and 287.8 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 75 positions were added and 41 dropped; 7.6% of the weight moved. Japan is the largest country at 24.72% of the portfolio, across 30 countries in the filing.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable equity funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Every filing since 2019

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Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, IEFA went from behaving like 363.3 equally weighted positions to 287.8 — 21% fewer, while its top ten went from 10.02% to 11.49% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 2,637 287.8 11.49% 2.23%
2026-01-31 2,603 287 11.45% 2.22%
2025-10-31 2,617 299.4 10.96% 1.81%
2025-07-31 2,608 316.5 10.59% 1.39%
2025-04-30 2,614 300.1 11.24% 1.48%
2025-01-31 2,685 288.9 11.89% 1.51%
2024-10-31 2,708 287.1 12.17% 1.88%
2024-07-31 2,744 267.6 13.25% 2.19%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 2,821 265.3 13.39% 2.22%
2024-01-31 2,865 272.2 13.26% 2%
2023-10-31 2,918 276.5 13.13% 1.91%
2023-07-31 2,984 291.7 12.66% 1.81%
2023-04-30 3,021 284.8 12.84% 1.93%
2023-01-31 3,017 296.9 12.4% 1.86%
2022-10-31 3,063 292.3 12.81% 2.03%
2022-07-31 3,081 305.7 12.44% 2.04%
2022-04-30 3,059 304.6 12.46% 2.07%
2022-01-31 3,074 329.9 11.4% 1.85%
2021-10-31 3,011 344 11.02% 1.86%
2021-07-31 2,950 352.5 10.88% 1.79%
2021-04-30 2,828 369 10.14% 1.74%
2021-01-31 2,652 370.8 10.16% 1.75%
2020-10-31 2,550 353 10.53% 2.17%
2020-07-31 2,513 332.5 10.98% 2.26%
2020-04-30 2,492 325 11.26% 2.22%
2020-01-31 2,456 362.6 9.94% 1.92%
2019-10-31 2,465 363.3 10.02% 1.96%

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.

As filed, collateral included

1.02% collateral

IEFA's filing lists 2,631 positions including 1.02% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 261.7 effective holdings with a top ten of 12.13%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 267.8 with a top ten of 11.97%. The collateral is matched by a liability and is not a holding the fund chose; since 2026-09-18 every figure on this site sets it aside (methodology). Both numbers are in the data.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 2,630 positions in IEFA's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: listed with the point-in-time files, available on request.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1ASML Holding N.V.2.23%2.2%
2HSBC HOLDINGS PLC1.25%3.5%
3ASTRAZENECA PLC1.17%4.6%
4Roche Holding AG1.14%5.8%
5Novartis AG1.11%6.9%
6Nestle S.A.1.03%7.9%
7SHELL PLC1.03%9.0%
8Siemens Aktiengesellschaft0.90%9.9%
9COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA0.84%10.7%
10Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.0.80%11.5%
11BHP GROUP LIMITED0.80%12.3%
12TOTALENERGIES SE0.73%13.0%
13TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION0.72%13.7%
14Banco Santander, S.A.0.71%14.4%
15SAP SE0.69%15.1%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of IEFA's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

CountryShare
Japan 24.94%
United Kingdom 13.76%
Switzerland 8.66%
France 8.30%
Germany 8.29%
Australia 7.26%
Netherlands° 5.92%
Sweden 3.46%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of IEFA's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

26.0%Last twelve months filed
92%Whole series, compounded
15.3%Best month
-13.9%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.17 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: IEFA.json · all funds.

Who borrows IEFA's shares

2026-07-31

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-07-31, $1.9bn was out to 24 borrowers. The largest, JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC, held 31.6% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC $602m 31.6%
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. $313m 16.4%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $234m 12.3%
BNP PARIBAS SECURITIES CORP $230m 12.1%
UBS AG $181m 9.5%

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 IEFA has filed, with each borrower: IEFA.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

2,597 positions became 2,631: 75 added (1.8% of the fund at the later date), 41 dropped (1.9% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 7.6%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of IEFA compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
TOTALENERGIES SE0.58%0.73% NOVO NORDISK A/S0.76%0.54%
COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA0.69%0.84% TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION0.86%0.72%
SHELL PLC0.89%1.03% SAP SE0.83%0.69%
Nokia Oyj0.14%0.27% LVMH MOET HENNESSY LOUIS VUITTON SE0.64%0.53%
Siemens Energy AG0.53%0.65% ESSILORLUXOTTICA SA0.37%0.25%
Fujikura Ltd.0.13%0.23% Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft0.39%0.29%

New: Roche Holding AG (1.14%), RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC (0.16%), SUNBELT RENTALS HOLDINGS, INC. (0.13%), TELECOM ITALIA SPA (0.02%), AYVENS SA (0.02%), CSG NV (0.02%). Gone: Roche Holding AG (1.28%), RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC (0.23%), ASHTEAD GROUP PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY (0.11%), CYBERARK SOFTWARE LTD. (0.09%), TOYOTA INDUSTRIES CORPORATION (0.08%), JDE Peet's N.V. (0.03%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC97.44%
unknown unknown1.54%
short-term investment STIV1.02%

4.0% of IEFA 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.

Derivative exposure and counterparties

as of 2026-04-30

A position count cannot describe a fund that uses derivatives, because a swap is filed at its unrealised gain, not its exposure. These are the notionals the fund itself reported, against net assets of $180.74B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

97.69%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.87%Futures notional (4)
98.6%Sum, % of net assets

1 option positions filed, 0 of them written. The book as filed:

TypeSideStrikeExpiryUnderlying
CallPurchased02030-08-31as filed, not named

Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

10

Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of IEFA (267.8). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
SCHA Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF 1,707 240.7 10.53% 2026-05-31
BKIE BNY Mellon International Equity ETF 978 243.1 12.21% 2026-07-31
USVM VictoryShares US Small Mid Cap Value Momentum ETF 289 246.9 6.92% 2026-06-30
AVES Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF 1,883 252.9 12.26% 2026-05-31
VXUS Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund 8,832 253.6 13.32% 2026-07-31
VEA Vanguard Developed Markets Index Fund 3,890 268.9 13.15% 2026-06-30
AVUV Avantis U.S. Small Cap Value ETF 797 272.3 8.67% 2026-05-31
KOMP State Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P Kensho New Economies Composite ETF 505 272.8 9.91% 2026-06-30
IVOO Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 Index Fund 403 276.9 8.32% 2026-05-31
DWM WisdomTree International Equity Fund 1,406 277.3 11.38% 2026-06-30

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