ETF comparison
IEMG vs KWEB
Both International Emerging.
iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF · KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF
Holdings overlap
32 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IEMG and KWEB would leave roughly 6.4% 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 60 bps cheaper than KWEB. On a $100,000 position that's about $600/yr more in fees for KWEB.
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 IEMG vs KWEB.
Top shared holdings
32 shared in total| # | Holding | In IEMG | In KWEB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.52% | 10.44% | 2.52% |
| 2 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.70% | 7.70% | 1.70% |
| 3 | MEITUAN | 0.36% | 6.83% | 0.36% |
| 4 | PDD Holdings Inc. | 0.35% | 7.92% | 0.35% |
| 5 | NETEASE, INC. | 0.30% | 6.97% | 0.30% |
| 6 | JD.COM, INC. | 0.23% | 3.87% | 0.23% |
| 7 | TRIP.COM GROUP LIMITED | 0.19% | 3.69% | 0.19% |
| 8 | BAIDU, INC. | 0.18% | 4.19% | 0.18% |
| 9 | KUAISHOU TECHNOLOGY | 0.09% | 4.08% | 0.09% |
| 10 | KE Holdings Inc. | 0.08% | 3.89% | 0.08% |
| 11 | KANZHUN LIMITED | 0.05% | 3.21% | 0.05% |
| 12 | Full Truck Alliance Co. Ltd. | 0.05% | 4.15% | 0.05% |
Only in IEMG
2,869 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 13.17%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 6.28%
- SK hynix Inc. 4.76%
- MediaTek Inc. 1.27%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.80%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.77%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.73%
- HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 0.68%
- HDFC BANK LIMITED 0.60%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.57%
Only in KWEB
2 total- Invesco Government & Agency Portfolio 4.63%
- WEIBO CORPORATION 0.46%
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More comparisons with KWEB
- KWEB vs DFAE · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF 5.6%
- KWEB vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 3.0%
- KWEB vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 2.3%
- KWEB vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 2.3%
- KWEB vs AVES · Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF 1.3%
- KWEB vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 0.9%
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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