ETF comparison
AVES vs SPEM
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
693 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVES and SPEM would leave roughly 18.7% 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
SPEM 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 SPEM.
Top shared holdings
693 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVES | In SPEM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CTBC Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.62% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
| 2 | Fubon Financial Holding Co Ltd | 1.20% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 3 | Elite Material Co Ltd | 0.56% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 4 | Vale SA | 0.97% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 5 | Infosys Ltd | 0.38% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 6 | Cathay Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.91% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 7 | Bajaj Finance Ltd | 0.29% | 0.30% | 0.29% |
| 8 | SinoPac Financial Holdings Co Ltd | 0.34% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 9 | Grupo Financiero Banorte SAB de CV | 0.48% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 10 | National Bank of Kuwait SAKP | 0.23% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 11 | TS Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.72% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 12 | Standard Bank Group Ltd | 0.46% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
Only in AVES
1,255 total- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 1.41%
- LG Electronics Inc 1.23%
- Hana Financial Group Inc 1.22%
- Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd 0.94%
- KB Financial Group Inc 0.91%
- Kia Corp 0.86%
- Woori Financial Group Inc 0.84%
- United Microelectronics Corp 0.72%
- HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co Ltd 0.66%
- Korea Investment Holdings Co Ltd 0.60%
Only in SPEM
2,222 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 14.65%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 2.74%
- MediaTek Inc 1.82%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 1.79%
- Delta Electronics Inc 1.13%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.93%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.83%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 0.82%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.81%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
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- AVES vs EEM · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 16.4%
- AVES vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 13.9%
- AVES vs AAXJ · iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF 13.7%
- AVES vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 13.3%
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- SPEM vs FXI · iShares China Large-Cap ETF 12.2%
- SPEM vs FLIN · Franklin FTSE India ETF 11.0%
- SPEM vs EPI · WisdomTree India Earnings Fund 10.9%
- SPEM vs INDA · iShares MSCI India ETF 10.1%
- SPEM vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 8.6%
- SPEM vs KWEB · KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF 7.0%
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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