ETF comparison
AVEM vs DFAE
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF
Holdings overlap
2,894 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and DFAE would leave roughly 54.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
DFAE is 4 bps cheaper than AVEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for AVEM.
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 AVEM vs DFAE.
Top shared holdings
2,894 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In DFAE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SK hynix Inc | 4.05% | 3.49% | 3.49% |
| 2 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 2.54% | 12.22% | 2.54% |
| 3 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 1.99% | 2.65% | 1.99% |
| 4 | China Construction Bank Corp | 1.04% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 5 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 4.21% | 0.64% | 0.64% |
| 6 | MediaTek Inc | 0.60% | 0.69% | 0.60% |
| 7 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.54% | 0.90% | 0.54% |
| 8 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.75% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 9 | PDD Holdings Inc | 0.94% | 0.52% | 0.52% |
| 10 | Ping An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd | 0.61% | 0.47% | 0.47% |
| 11 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 1.14% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 12 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.47% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
Only in AVEM
1,043 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 6.47%
- Kia Corp 0.47%
- Shriram Finance Ltd 0.28%
- Bajaj Finance Ltd 0.27%
- Cia de Minas Buenaventura SAA 0.23%
- State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund 0.19%
- State Bank of India 0.15%
- XP Inc 0.15%
- Naspers Ltd 0.15%
- Orient Overseas International Ltd 0.13%
Only in DFAE
3,416 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 4.35%
- DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP 1.76%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 1.40%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.45%
- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 0.37%
- HDFC BANK LIMITED 0.33%
- NETEASE, INC. 0.28%
- KB Financial Group Inc. 0.23%
- TRIP.COM GROUP LIMITED 0.23%
- ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. 0.23%
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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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