ETF comparison
IEMG vs MCHI
Both International Emerging.
iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF · iShares MSCI China ETF
Holdings overlap
574 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IEMG and MCHI would leave roughly 18.0% 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
IEMG is 50 bps cheaper than MCHI. On a $100,000 position that's about $500/yr more in fees for MCHI.
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 MCHI.
Top shared holdings
574 shared in total| # | Holding | In IEMG | In MCHI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.52% | 13.93% | 2.52% |
| 2 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.70% | 9.42% | 1.70% |
| 3 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.73% | 4.00% | 0.73% |
| 4 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 0.45% | 2.47% | 0.45% |
| 5 | XIAOMI CORPORATION | 0.43% | 2.37% | 0.43% |
| 6 | BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 0.36% | 1.97% | 0.36% |
| 7 | MEITUAN | 0.36% | 1.98% | 0.36% |
| 8 | PDD Holdings Inc. | 0.35% | 1.87% | 0.35% |
| 9 | Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. | 0.34% | 1.84% | 0.34% |
| 10 | NETEASE, INC. | 0.30% | 1.68% | 0.30% |
| 11 | BYD COMPANY LIMITED | 0.29% | 1.60% | 0.29% |
| 12 | JD.COM, INC. | 0.23% | 1.27% | 0.23% |
Only in IEMG
2,327 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%
- HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 0.68%
- HDFC BANK LIMITED 0.60%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.57%
- ICICI BANK LIMITED 0.56%
Only in MCHI
0 totalEvery MCHI position is also held by IEMG.
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- MCHI vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 6.1%
- MCHI vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 6.1%
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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