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AAXJ vs FRDM

Both International Emerging.

iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF · Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AAXJ and FRDM would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

AAXJ unmatched 99.7% Shared 0.0% FRDM unmatched 13.2%

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.

In AAXJ only
940 positions
Shared
0 positions
In FRDM only
16 positions

Holdings data for FRDM covers 13.2% of fund weight. The remainder lacks matchable identifiers in the N-PORT filing.

Side by side

AAXJ

iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF

iShares · International Emerging

55 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.72%
Net assets
$3.96B
TTM yield
1.45%
Top-10 conc.
42.2%
FRDM

Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF

Life + Liberty (Alpha Architect) · International Emerging

61 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.49%
Net assets
$3.55B
TTM yield
1.85%
Top-10 conc.
56.6%

Sub-score comparison

28
Cost
51
78
Tax efficiency
77
83
Liquidity
80
54
Concentration
33
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Tracking quality
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AAXJ sub-score FRDM

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

FRDM is 23 bps cheaper than AAXJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $230/yr more in fees for AAXJ.

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 AAXJ vs FRDM.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in AAXJ

940 total
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 17.21%
  • Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 7.68%
  • SK hynix Inc. 5.93%
  • Tencent Holdings Limited 3.55%
  • Alibaba Group Holding Limited 2.41%
  • MediaTek Inc. 1.46%
  • DBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTD 1.12%
  • AIA Group Limited 0.99%
  • Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.95%
  • CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.94%

Only in FRDM

16 total
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 8.52%
  • United Microelectronics Corp 1.43%
  • Gold Fields Ltd 0.52%
  • Banco Bradesco SA 0.51%
  • First American Government Obligations Fund 0.43%
  • Grupo Mexico SAB de CV 0.42%
  • Grupo Financiero Banorte SAB de CV 0.38%
  • Cia Cervecerias Unidas SA 0.19%
  • Cia Sud Americana de Vapores SA 0.19%
  • ARCA CONTINENTAL SAB DE CV 0.14%

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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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