ETF comparison
AVES vs DFAE
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF
Holdings overlap
1,423 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVES and DFAE would leave roughly 25.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
DFAE is 7 bps cheaper than AVES. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for AVES.
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 AVES vs DFAE.
Top shared holdings
1,423 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVES | In DFAE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hyundai Motor Co | 1.39% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 2 | Vale SA | 1.10% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 3 | Hana Financial Group Inc | 1.05% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 4 | Gold Fields Ltd | 0.46% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 5 | Elite Material Co Ltd | 0.27% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 6 | Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd | 0.28% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 7 | CTBC Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.96% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 8 | Standard Bank Group Ltd | 0.50% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 9 | Emaar Properties PJSC | 0.57% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 10 | Hanwha Aerospace Co Ltd | 0.54% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 11 | Larsen & Toubro Ltd | 0.40% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 12 | ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd | 0.96% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
Only in AVES
406 total- State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund 5.71%
- Kia Corp 1.01%
- Shriram Finance Ltd 0.52%
- JD Health International Inc 0.48%
- XP Inc 0.39%
- Advanced Info Service PCL 0.32%
- Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Co Ltd 0.30%
- Bajaj Finance Ltd 0.27%
- Muthoot Finance Ltd 0.23%
- Power Finance Corp Ltd 0.22%
Only in DFAE
4,887 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 12.22%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 4.35%
- SK hynix Inc. 3.49%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 2.65%
- DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP 1.76%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 1.40%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.90%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.78%
- MediaTek Inc. 0.69%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.64%
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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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