ETF comparison
DBEF vs VWO
International Developed vs International Emerging.
Xtrackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DBEF and VWO would leave roughly 0.0% 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
VWO is 29 bps cheaper than DBEF. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/yr more in fees for DBEF.
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 DBEF vs VWO.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In DBEF | In VWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD | 0.04% | 0.07% | 0.04% |
Only in DBEF
666 total- ASML HOLDING NV 2.88%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 1.57%
- ROCHE HOLDING AG 1.35%
- NOVARTIS AG 1.23%
- SHELL PLC 1.11%
- NESTLE' SA/AG 1.11%
- MITSUBISHI UFJ FINANCIAL GROUP INC 1.08%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 1.08%
- BHP GROUP LTD 1.06%
- SIEMENS AG 1.06%
Only in VWO
4,979 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 15.56%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 3.31%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 2.41%
- MediaTek Inc 1.36%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.90%
- Delta Electronics Inc 0.82%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.81%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.78%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.69%
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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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