ETF comparison
AVEM vs MCHI
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · iShares MSCI China ETF
Holdings overlap
142 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and MCHI would leave roughly 15.4% 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
AVEM is 26 bps cheaper than MCHI. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/yr more in fees for MCHI.
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 MCHI.
Top shared holdings
142 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In MCHI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 1.64% | 13.93% | 1.64% |
| 2 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.92% | 4.00% | 0.92% |
| 3 | Bank of China Ltd | 0.55% | 1.97% | 0.55% |
| 4 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.51% | 2.47% | 0.51% |
| 5 | PDD Holdings Inc | 0.49% | 1.87% | 0.49% |
| 6 | Ping An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd | 0.46% | 1.84% | 0.46% |
| 7 | Lenovo Group Ltd | 0.38% | 1.12% | 0.38% |
| 8 | China Life Insurance Co Ltd | 0.36% | 1.13% | 0.36% |
| 9 | Zijin Mining Group Co Ltd | 0.30% | 1.10% | 0.30% |
| 10 | PetroChina Co Ltd | 0.27% | 1.08% | 0.27% |
| 11 | China Merchants Bank Co Ltd | 0.27% | 0.97% | 0.27% |
| 12 | Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd | 0.26% | 0.57% | 0.26% |
Only in AVEM
3,845 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%
- MediaTek Inc 0.94%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.75%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.66%
- LG Electronics Inc 0.65%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.65%
- Chroma ATE Inc 0.58%
Only in MCHI
432 total- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 9.42%
- NETEASE, INC. 1.68%
- TRIP.COM GROUP LIMITED 1.04%
- BAIDU, INC. 0.98%
- BeOne Medicines AG 0.86%
- Kweichow Moutai Co., Ltd. 0.57%
- Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. 0.56%
- KE Holdings Inc. 0.46%
- Zhongji Innolight Co., Ltd. 0.33%
- ZTO EXPRESS (CAYMAN) INC. 0.32%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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