ETF comparison
AAXJ vs ESGE
Both International Emerging.
iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF
Holdings overlap
221 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AAXJ and ESGE would leave roughly 58.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
ESGE is 47 bps cheaper than AAXJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $470/yr more in fees for AAXJ.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with AAXJ vs ESGE.
Top shared holdings
221 shared in total| # | Holding | In AAXJ | In ESGE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 16.28% | 13.61% | 13.61% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 6.78% | 6.28% | 6.28% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc. | 4.63% | 3.72% | 3.72% |
| 4 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 3.70% | 3.56% | 3.56% |
| 5 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 2.70% | 2.51% | 2.51% |
| 6 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 1.03% | 1.23% | 1.03% |
| 7 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 1.30% | 0.92% | 0.92% |
| 8 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.88% | 1.13% | 0.88% |
| 9 | RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED | 0.88% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 10 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 0.84% | 1.00% | 0.84% |
| 11 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.21% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 12 | XIAOMI CORPORATION | 0.62% | 0.66% | 0.62% |
Only in AAXJ
684 total- AIA Group Limited 1.09%
- DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD 0.90%
- Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited 0.57%
- OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED 0.55%
- BHARTI AIRTEL LIMITED 0.48%
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY 0.46%
- ELITE MATERIAL CO., LTD. 0.42%
- UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORP. 0.35%
- UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED 0.34%
- SEA LIMITED 0.32%
Only in ESGE
75 total- Al Rajhi Bank 0.88%
- Gold Fields Ltd 0.76%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 0.63%
- NEPI Rockcastle NV 0.61%
- BlackRock Funds III 0.57%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 0.54%
- Valterra Platinum Ltd 0.54%
- Nedbank Group Ltd 0.53%
- Qatar National Bank QPSC 0.52%
- B3 SA - Brasil Bolsa Balcao 0.50%
Open AAXJ or ESGE at a brokerage
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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