ETF comparison
AVEM vs DFAE
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF
Holdings overlap
2,867 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and DFAE would leave roughly 55.4% 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
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
2,867 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In DFAE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SK hynix Inc | 7.82% | 4.54% | 4.54% |
| 2 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 4.11% | 13.19% | 4.11% |
| 3 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 1.51% | 2.57% | 1.51% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc | 1.11% | 0.97% | 0.97% |
| 5 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.88% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 6 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.76% | 0.79% | 0.76% |
| 7 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 5.70% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 8 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.77% | 0.62% | 0.62% |
| 9 | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd | 0.45% | 0.46% | 0.45% |
| 10 | ICICI Bank Ltd | 0.43% | 0.45% | 0.43% |
| 11 | Ping An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd | 0.49% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 12 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 0.81% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
Only in AVEM
1,046 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 6.33%
- Kia Corp 0.34%
- Bajaj Finance Ltd 0.22%
- Shriram Finance Ltd 0.20%
- Cia de Minas Buenaventura SAA 0.17%
- Delta Electronics Thailand PCL 0.12%
- Katilimevim Tasarruf Finansman AS 0.12%
- Catcher Technology Co Ltd 0.12%
- Orient Overseas International Ltd 0.11%
- State Bank of India 0.11%
Only in DFAE
3,401 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 5.17%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 1.20%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.40%
- HDFC BANK LIMITED 0.35%
- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 0.30%
- NETEASE, INC. 0.29%
- ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. 0.25%
- KB Financial Group Inc. 0.24%
- AXIS BANK LIMITED 0.20%
- United Microelectronics Corporation 0.20%
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- AVEM vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 43.6%
- AVEM vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 42.9%
- AVEM vs SCHE · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF 42.7%
- AVEM vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 42.3%
More comparisons with DFAE
- DFAE vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 50.6%
- DFAE vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 36.8%
- DFAE vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 35.2%
- DFAE vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 28.6%
- DFAE vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 28.3%
- DFAE vs AVES · Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF 24.1%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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