ETF comparison
FNDF vs IEMG
International Developed vs International Emerging.
Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
65 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FNDF and IEMG would leave roughly 8.3% 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
IEMG is 16 bps cheaper than FNDF. On a $100,000 position that's about $160/yr more in fees for FNDF.
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 FNDF vs IEMG.
Top shared holdings
65 shared in total| # | Holding | In FNDF | In IEMG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 3.73% | 6.28% | 3.73% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc | 0.72% | 4.76% | 0.72% |
| 3 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 0.46% | 0.77% | 0.46% |
| 4 | Hyundai Motor Co | 0.27% | 0.28% | 0.27% |
| 5 | Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co Ltd | 0.21% | 0.42% | 0.21% |
| 6 | ORLEN SA | 0.20% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 7 | Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd | 0.17% | 0.24% | 0.17% |
| 8 | KB Financial Group Inc | 0.16% | 0.31% | 0.16% |
| 9 | Kia Corp | 0.21% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 10 | Hyundai Mobis Co Ltd | 0.17% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 11 | POSCO Holdings Inc | 0.28% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 12 | LG Electronics Inc | 0.31% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
Only in FNDF
821 total- Shell PLC 2.40%
- TotalEnergies SE 1.68%
- BHP Group Ltd 1.23%
- Glencore PLC 1.12%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.11%
- BP PLC 1.04%
- Toyota Motor Corp 0.93%
- Roche Holding AG 0.89%
- Banco Santander SA 0.83%
- Rio Tinto PLC 0.74%
Only in IEMG
2,836 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 13.17%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 2.52%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 1.70%
- MediaTek Inc. 1.27%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.80%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.73%
- HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 0.68%
- HDFC BANK LIMITED 0.60%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.57%
- ICICI BANK LIMITED 0.56%
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- IEMG vs PXF · Invesco RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 8.2%
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- IEMG vs SPDW · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF 6.7%
- IEMG vs VSS · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares 6.5%
- IEMG vs KWEB · KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF 6.4%
- IEMG vs EWZ · iShares MSCI Brazil ETF 3.5%
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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