ETF comparison
AVES vs DFAE
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF
Holdings overlap
1,454 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVES and DFAE would leave roughly 24.1% 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 7 bps cheaper than AVES. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for AVES.
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 AVES vs DFAE.
Top shared holdings
1,454 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVES | In DFAE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hyundai Motor Co | 1.35% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 2 | Vale SA | 1.02% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 3 | CTBC Financial Holding Co Ltd | 1.00% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 4 | Fubon Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.91% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 5 | Hana Financial Group Inc | 0.93% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 6 | Unimicron Technology Corp | 1.18% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 7 | Elite Material Co Ltd | 0.55% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 8 | ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd | 1.48% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 9 | Cathay Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.73% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 10 | TS Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.46% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 11 | United Microelectronics Corp | 0.77% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 12 | Gold Fields Ltd | 0.30% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
Only in AVES
428 total- Kia Corp 0.99%
- Shriram Finance Ltd 0.42%
- DL E&C Co Ltd 0.31%
- XP Inc 0.30%
- Advanced Info Service PCL 0.26%
- Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Co Ltd 0.25%
- Bajaj Finance Ltd 0.23%
- Power Finance Corp Ltd 0.21%
- Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp 0.20%
- Muthoot Finance Ltd 0.19%
Only in DFAE
4,814 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 13.19%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 5.17%
- SK hynix Inc. 4.54%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 2.57%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 1.20%
- MediaTek Inc. 0.97%
- HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 0.79%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.77%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.67%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.62%
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- AVES vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 19.9%
- AVES vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 19.5%
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- DFAE vs EWY · iShares MSCI South Korea ETF 14.9%
- DFAE vs VT · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 11.1%
- DFAE vs EPI · WisdomTree India Earnings Fund 10.9%
- DFAE vs FXI · iShares China Large-Cap ETF 10.5%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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