MSCI World or DAX?

The two indices share 1.8 % of their weight across 34 companies, and their daily returns correlate at 0.77. Small overlap and limited co-movement: these are two genuinely different building blocks.

Side by side

MSCI World or DAX?
MSCI WorldDAX
Holdings covered1,14734
Volatility15.8 %19.3 %
Max drawdown-16.9 %-16.0 %
Cheapest ETF we coverSPPW · 0.12 %DBXD · 0.09 %

The largest shared positions

Shared positions
CompanyMSCI WorldDAX
Siemens N AG0.25 %11.24 %
Allianz SE0.21 %9.40 %
Airbus Group0.16 %7.01 %
Siemens Energy N AG0.15 %7.01 %
Infineon Technologies AG0.10 %4.42 %
Munchener Ruckversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG0.09 %3.72 %
Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft0.07 %3.50 %
Rheinmetall AG0.07 %3.03 %
Bayer AG0.06 %2.72 %
BASF SE0.06 %2.57 %

Overlap and shared positions are computed from the holdings of one representative ETF each (XDWD and DBXD); of those we could attribute 93.4 % and 81.2 % of fund weight to individual companies, so real overlap is likely a little higher. The correlation covers 520 shared trading days.

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