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IQDF holdings

IQDF reports 225 holdings and behaves like 100.1 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 2026-07-31

Read this figure with the following in mind

2.1% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 98.3

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.

225 Positions reported
100.1 Effective holdings
2.2× Concentration multiple
19.9% 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: 97.88% at a quoted market price (level 1), 36 issuer countries, 3% restricted securities.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

IQDF's largest investment is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd at 4.19% of net assets. Advantest Corp and Tokyo Electron Ltd follow; the three together are 7.93%. Ten companies are 19.9% of the fund; the other 215 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, IQDF behaves like 100.1 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 2.4 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings IQDF has held roughly steady since 2019-10-31 (126.3 then, 106.4 now). Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 25 positions were added and 40 dropped; 21.1% of the weight moved. Japan is the largest country at 11.98% of the portfolio, across 36 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, IQDF went from behaving like 126.3 equally weighted positions to 106.4 — 16% fewer, while its top ten went from 14.79% to 18.49% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 222 106.4 18.49% 4.23%
2026-01-31 237 113.8 18.18% 3.47%
2025-10-31 247 114.9 18.67% 3.34%
2025-07-31 210 116.7 17.62% 2.82%
2025-04-30 198 108.5 19.42% 3.16%
2025-01-31 227 124.7 16.74% 2.76%
2024-10-31 225 110.3 19.85% 3.09%
2024-07-31 211 105.1 20.53% 3.02%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 200 99.8 20.51% 3.46%
2024-01-31 198 98 21.51% 3.1%
2023-10-31 203 99 21.53% 3.19%
2023-07-31 * 207 100 21.44% 3.26%
2023-04-30 220 107.3 20.64% 2.88%
2023-01-31 211 103.6 20.84% 3%
2022-10-31 205 104.9 20.04% 3.24%
2022-07-31 237 109.4 19.58% 3.17%
2022-04-30 229 108.9 18.82% 2.39%
2022-01-31 250 119.6 17.78% 2.54%
2021-10-31 251 124 17.29% 2.27%
2021-07-31 * 241 124.4 16.88% 2.2%
2021-04-30 * 211 116 17.92% 2.54%
2021-01-31 221 112 18.91% 2.41%
2020-10-31 245 115.8 18.99% 2.46%
2020-07-31 * 253 122.8 18.83% 2.5%
2020-04-30 209 111.9 17.9% 2.91%
2020-01-31 200 121.3 15.43% 2.69%
2019-10-31 214 126.3 14.79% 2.69%

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

2.15% collateral

IQDF's filing lists 232 positions including 2.15% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 98.3 effective holdings with a top ten of 20.18%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 100.1 with a top ten of 19.9%. 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 225 positions in IQDF's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: IQDF.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.4.23%4.2%
2Advantest Corp.1.97%6.2%
3Tokyo Electron Ltd.1.81%8.0%
4Roche Holding AG1.79%9.8%
5MediaTek, Inc.1.78%11.6%
6Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.1.44%13.0%
7BHP Group Ltd.1.40%14.4%
8Novo Nordisk A/S1.38%15.8%
9Enel SpA1.37%17.2%
10Novartis AG1.33%18.5%
11Equinor ASA1.20%19.7%
12ASML Holding NV1.11%20.8%
13TotalEnergies SE1.10%21.9%
14Nestle SA1.09%23.0%
15Royal Bank of Canada1.08%24.1%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

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

CountryShare
Japan 11.76%
Taiwan 10.58%
Hong Kong SAR China 8.02%
United Kingdom 7.63%
Switzerland 6.31%
Canada 5.67%
Italy 4.58%
France 3.64%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

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

35.1%Last twelve months filed
103%Whole series, compounded
14.5%Best month
-16.8%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.48 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: IQDF.json · all funds.

Who borrows IQDF'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, $163m was out to 18 borrowers. The largest, GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL, held 36.1% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL $59m 36.1%
HSBC BANK PLC $27m 16.2%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INTERNATIONAL PLC $23m 14.1%
BofA Securities, Inc. $17m 10.5%
Merrill Lynch International $10m 6.2%

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

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

229 positions became 214: 25 added (11.3% of the fund at the later date), 40 dropped (10.9% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 21.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of IQDF compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.3.47%4.23% HSBC Holdings plc1.99%0.38%
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.0.79%1.44% Nomura Holdings, Inc.0.91%0.24%
Fujikura Ltd.0.07%0.69% Rio Tinto Ltd.0.95%0.34%
Evolution AB0.33%0.91% Danske Bank A/S0.86%0.30%
Realtek Semiconductor Corp.0.15%0.71% Novo Nordisk A/S1.93%1.38%
MediaTek, Inc.1.22%1.78% Singapore Airlines Ltd.0.59%0.21%

New: Roche Holding AG (1.79%), NatWest Group plc (0.92%), Holcim AG (0.89%), Wolters Kluwer NV (0.85%), MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc. (0.78%), Ambev SA (0.73%). Gone: Roche Holding AG (2.04%), New China Life Insurance Co. Ltd. (0.81%), Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. (0.68%), Cheng Shin Rubber Industry Co. Ltd. (0.63%), Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd. (0.46%), Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (0.39%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC97.58%
repurchase agreement RA2.04%
short-term investment STIV0.35%
DFE DFE0.01%

97.9% of IQDF 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 $1.10B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

98.49%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
1.45%Futures notional (2)
99.9%Sum, % of net assets

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

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

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Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of IQDF (100.1). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
SPLV Invesco S&P 500 Low Volatility ETF 103 98.5 12.54% 2026-05-31
IEV iShares Europe ETF 371 99.1 21.89% 2026-06-30
SMDV ProShares Russell 2000 Dividend Growers ETF 105 99.1 12.91% 2026-05-31
QQQE Direxion NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index Shares 103 99.3 12.37% 2026-07-31
EQWL Invesco S&P 100 Equal Weight ETF 102 99.7 11.46% 2026-07-31
FYLD Cambria Foreign Shareholder Yield ETF 102 100.2 11.3% 2026-07-31
JPXN iShares JPX-Nikkei 400 ETF 392 101.6 21.32% 2026-06-30
TILT FlexShares Morningstar US Market Factor Tilt Index Fund 1,910 101.9 25.73% 2026-07-31
DMXF iShares ESG Advanced MSCI EAFE ETF 425 102 21.93% 2026-05-31
JSMD Janus Henderson Small/Mid Cap Growth Alpha ETF 127 102.1 16.64% 2026-07-31

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