ETF comparison
AVDE vs IEMG
International Developed vs International Emerging.
Avantis International Equity ETF · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVDE and IEMG would leave roughly 0.0% 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 14 bps cheaper than AVDE. On a $100,000 position that's about $140/yr more in fees for AVDE.
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 AVDE vs IEMG.
Top shared holdings
2 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVDE | In IEMG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Valterra Platinum Ltd | 0.02% | 0.15% | 0.02% |
| 2 | Anglogold Ashanti Plc | 0.00% | 0.33% | 0.00% |
Only in AVDE
3,294 total- ASML Holding NV 1.31%
- Roche Holding AG 0.94%
- Shell PLC 0.83%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.81%
- BHP Group Ltd 0.59%
- Novartis AG 0.54%
- Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA 0.52%
- Safran SA 0.52%
- UBS Group AG 0.50%
- Allianz SE 0.50%
Only in IEMG
2,665 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 12.49%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 6.80%
- SK hynix Inc. 5.82%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 2.37%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 1.82%
- MediaTek Inc. 1.42%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 1.02%
- HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 0.79%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.74%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.71%
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- AVDE vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 53.5%
- AVDE vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 49.6%
- AVDE vs SPDW · State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF 49.3%
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- IEMG vs DFIV · Dimensional International Value ETF 0.0%
- IEMG vs AVDV · Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF 0.0%
- IEMG vs DFIC · Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF 0.0%
- IEMG vs AVIV · Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF 0.0%
- IEMG vs BBJP · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Japan ETF 0.0%
- IEMG vs DBEF · Xtrackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF 0.0%
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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