ETF comparison
AVEM vs ESGE
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF
Holdings overlap
220 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and ESGE would leave roughly 35.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
ESGE is 8 bps cheaper than AVEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $80/yr more in fees for AVEM.
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 AVEM vs ESGE.
Top shared holdings
220 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In ESGE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 5.72% | 15.08% | 5.72% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc | 5.57% | 5.55% | 5.55% |
| 3 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 1.64% | 2.56% | 1.64% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc | 0.94% | 1.41% | 0.94% |
| 5 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.92% | 1.19% | 0.92% |
| 6 | United Microelectronics Corp | 0.65% | 0.66% | 0.65% |
| 7 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.66% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 8 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.54% | 1.09% | 0.54% |
| 9 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.51% | 0.65% | 0.51% |
| 10 | Anglogold Ashanti Plc | 0.49% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 11 | Hana Financial Group Inc | 0.46% | 0.51% | 0.46% |
| 12 | Ping An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd | 0.46% | 0.59% | 0.46% |
Only in AVEM
3,767 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 6.18%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 5.14%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.75%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 0.51%
- KB Financial Group Inc 0.50%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.50%
- NetEase Inc 0.49%
- PDD Holdings Inc 0.49%
- Fubon Financial Holding Co Ltd 0.47%
- Vale SA 0.45%
Only in ESGE
67 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 7.25%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 1.71%
- Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. 1.05%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.94%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 0.65%
- KB Financial Group Inc. 0.60%
- Gold Fields Limited 0.58%
- Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd. 0.56%
- ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. 0.56%
- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 0.54%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with AVEM
- AVEM vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 34.9%
- AVEM vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 33.6%
- AVEM vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 23.2%
- AVEM vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 22.6%
- AVEM vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 16.0%
- AVEM vs MCHI · iShares MSCI China ETF 15.4%
More comparisons with ESGE
- ESGE vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 34.6%
- ESGE vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 34.4%
- ESGE vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 27.6%
- ESGE vs EWY · iShares MSCI South Korea ETF 20.1%
- ESGE vs MCHI · iShares MSCI China ETF 19.4%
- ESGE vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 19.2%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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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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