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AVES vs IEFA

International Emerging vs International Developed.

Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVES and IEFA would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

AVES unmatched 98.6% Shared 0.0% IEFA unmatched 99.6%

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.

In AVES only
1,948 positions
Shared
0 positions
In IEFA only
2,613 positions

Side by side

AVES

Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF

Avantis · International Emerging

71 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.36%
Net assets
$1.45B
TTM yield
3.73%
Top-10 conc.
10.9%
IEFA

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF

iShares · International Developed

92 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.070%
Net assets
$189.30B
TTM yield
3.39%
Top-10 conc.
11.9%

Sub-score comparison

64
Cost
93
73
Tax efficiency
76
64
Liquidity
100
99
Concentration
97
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Tracking quality
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AVES sub-score IEFA

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

IEFA is 29 bps cheaper than AVES. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/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 IEFA.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in AVES

1,948 total
  • ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 1.41%
  • LG Electronics Inc 1.23%
  • Hana Financial Group Inc 1.22%
  • Fubon Financial Holding Co Ltd 1.20%
  • Innolux Corp 1.19%
  • Vale SA 0.97%
  • Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd 0.94%
  • Cathay Financial Holding Co Ltd 0.91%
  • KB Financial Group Inc 0.91%
  • Wistron Corp 0.90%

Only in IEFA

2,613 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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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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