ETF comparison
AVEM vs ESGE
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF
Holdings overlap
223 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVEM and ESGE would leave roughly 31.0% 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
ESGE is 8 bps cheaper than AVEM. On a $100,000 position that's about $80/yr more in fees for AVEM.
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Top shared holdings
223 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVEM | In ESGE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SK hynix Inc | 7.82% | 4.62% | 4.62% |
| 2 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 4.11% | 14.90% | 4.11% |
| 3 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 1.51% | 2.64% | 1.51% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc | 1.11% | 1.50% | 1.11% |
| 5 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.88% | 1.21% | 0.88% |
| 6 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.77% | 1.43% | 0.77% |
| 7 | United Microelectronics Corp | 0.64% | 0.80% | 0.64% |
| 8 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | 0.76% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 9 | Ping An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd | 0.49% | 0.63% | 0.49% |
| 10 | Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co Ltd | 0.48% | 0.98% | 0.48% |
| 11 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 0.45% | 0.86% | 0.45% |
| 12 | Anglogold Ashanti Plc | 0.45% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
Only in AVEM
3,690 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 6.33%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 5.70%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 0.81%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 0.65%
- Unimicron Technology Corp 0.52%
- Vale SA 0.50%
- Bank of China Ltd 0.49%
- NetEase Inc 0.49%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.46%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.43%
Only in ESGE
65 total- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 8.54%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 1.96%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1.23%
- Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. 1.05%
- SK Square Co., Ltd. 0.81%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.66%
- ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. 0.56%
- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 0.54%
- INFOSYS LIMITED 0.51%
- Gold Fields Limited 0.47%
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- AVEM vs MCHI · iShares MSCI China ETF 14.8%
- AVEM vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 14.7%
- AVEM vs EWY · iShares MSCI South Korea ETF 13.5%
- AVEM vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 9.0%
More comparisons with ESGE
- ESGE vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 26.6%
- ESGE vs EWY · iShares MSCI South Korea ETF 21.7%
- ESGE vs IXUS · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF 19.1%
- ESGE vs MCHI · iShares MSCI China ETF 18.8%
- ESGE vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 18.3%
- ESGE vs AVES · Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF 12.2%
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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