ETF comparison
IEMG vs SCHF
International Emerging vs International Developed.
iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF · Schwab International Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
163 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IEMG and SCHF would leave roughly 9.4% 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
SCHF is 6 bps cheaper than IEMG. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/yr more in fees for IEMG.
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 SCHF.
Top shared holdings
163 shared in total| # | Holding | In IEMG | In SCHF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 6.28% | 2.88% | 2.88% |
| 2 | SK hynix Inc. | 4.76% | 2.23% | 2.23% |
| 3 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 0.77% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 4 | SK Square Co., Ltd. | 0.49% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 5 | SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD | 0.42% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 6 | KB Financial Group Inc. | 0.31% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 7 | HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY | 0.28% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 8 | Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd. | 0.24% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 9 | Lenovo Group Limited | 0.20% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 10 | DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD. | 0.19% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 11 | HANWHA AEROSPACE CO., LTD. | 0.19% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 12 | Hana Financial Group Inc. | 0.19% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
Only in IEMG
2,738 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%
Only in SCHF
1,311 total- ASML Holding NV 2.14%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 1.17%
- Roche Holding AG 1.01%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.94%
- Novartis AG 0.94%
- Shell PLC 0.84%
- Nestle SA 0.83%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 0.82%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.80%
- Siemens AG 0.80%
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- IEMG vs PXF · Invesco RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 8.2%
- IEMG vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 7.4%
- 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%
More comparisons with SCHF
- SCHF vs EPP · iShares MSCI Pacific ex Japan ETF 7.5%
- SCHF vs BBAX · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Developed Asia Pacific ex-Japan ETF 7.3%
- SCHF vs EWL · iShares MSCI Switzerland ETF 6.8%
- SCHF vs EWG · iShares MSCI Germany ETF 6.6%
- SCHF vs SCZ · iShares MSCI EAFE Small-Cap ETF 5.7%
- SCHF vs EWA · iShares MSCI Australia ETF 4.9%
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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