ETF comparison
AVEM vs IEFA
International Emerging vs International Developed.
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and IEFA would leave roughly 0.0% 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
IEFA is 26 bps cheaper than AVEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/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 IEFA.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In IEFA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metlen Energy & Metals PLC | 0.00% | 0.02% | 0.00% |
Only in AVEM
3,986 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 6.18%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 5.72%
- SK hynix Inc 5.57%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 5.14%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 1.64%
- MediaTek Inc 0.94%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.92%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.75%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.66%
- LG Electronics Inc 0.65%
Only in IEFA
2,612 total- ASML Holding N.V. 2.50%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 1.42%
- Roche Holding AG 1.20%
- Novartis AG 1.12%
- Nestle S.A. 1.00%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 1.00%
- SHELL PLC 1.00%
- Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 0.95%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 0.93%
- BHP GROUP LIMITED 0.83%
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- AVEM vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 54.1%
- AVEM vs EEM · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 49.8%
- AVEM vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 46.4%
- AVEM vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 45.3%
More comparisons with IEFA
- IEFA vs ASHR · Xtrackers Harvest CSI 300 China A-Shares ETF 0.0%
- IEFA vs AVES · Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF 0.0%
- IEFA vs EEM · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 0.0%
- IEFA vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 0.0%
- IEFA vs EPI · WisdomTree India Earnings Fund 0.0%
- IEFA vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 0.0%
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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