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Wednesday, August 19, 2026The Morning Brief →Sign in

Tax-Loss Harvest Finder

Sell the loss, keep the exposure. For any fund, ranked stand-ins that track the same market — scored on a year of price correlation, holdings overlap, and fee — with a flag when two funds follow the same index and a swap could look substantially identical.

Correlation computed on ~250 shared sessions per pair · not tax advice — the flag is a heuristic, your compliance desk has the final word

Fund to harvestTry:IVVQQQAGG
Stand-ins for FNDBSchwab Fundamental U.S. Broad Market Index ETF
SubstituteCorrelationBook overlapFee vs FNDBAssetsWash-sale read
IWD iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF0.952-6bp$83.9Bdifferent indexCompare
VBR Vanguard Small Cap Value Index Fund0.922-18bp$30.1Bdifferent indexCompare
IJR iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF0.898-19bp$113Bdifferent indexCompare
DIA SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust0.876-9bp$46.5Bdifferent indexCompare
IWM iShares Russell 2000 ETF0.869-6bp$83.2Bdifferent indexCompare
VTI Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund0.860-22bp$428.1Bdifferent indexCompare

RANKED BY CORRELATION, FEE, AND OVERLAP · “SAME INDEX” PAIRS ARE FLAGGED BECAUSE THE IRS HAS NEVER DEFINED “SUBSTANTIALLY IDENTICAL” — MOST DESKS TREAT SAME-INDEX SWAPS AS OFF-LIMITS AND DIFFERENT-INDEX SWAPS AS DEFENSIBLE

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