ETF comparison
AVEM vs IEMG
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
1,941 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and IEMG would leave roughly 51.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
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Cost difference
IEMG is 24 bps cheaper than AVEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $240/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 IEMG.
Top shared holdings
1,941 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In IEMG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SK hynix Inc | 4.05% | 3.01% | 3.01% |
| 2 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 2.54% | 11.41% | 2.54% |
| 3 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 1.99% | 3.14% | 1.99% |
| 4 | China Construction Bank Corp | 1.04% | 0.73% | 0.73% |
| 5 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.75% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 6 | MediaTek Inc | 0.60% | 0.70% | 0.60% |
| 7 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 0.59% | 0.82% | 0.59% |
| 8 | PDD Holdings Inc | 0.94% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 9 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.54% | 0.65% | 0.54% |
| 10 | Anglogold Ashanti Plc | 0.66% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 11 | Hyundai Motor Co | 0.78% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 12 | Ping An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd | 0.61% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
Only in AVEM
1,996 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 6.47%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 4.21%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 1.14%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.63%
- Vale SA 0.57%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.54%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 0.53%
- NetEase Inc 0.50%
- Gold Fields Ltd 0.45%
- KB Financial Group Inc 0.44%
Only in IEMG
732 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 5.29%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 2.32%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.70%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.60%
- VALE S.A. 0.46%
- Gold Fields Limited 0.39%
- Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. 0.37%
- INFOSYS LIMITED 0.36%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 0.31%
- KB Financial Group Inc. 0.30%
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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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