ETF comparison
AVES vs ESGE
Both International Emerging.
Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF
Holdings overlap
91 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVES and ESGE would leave roughly 12.2% 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 11 bps cheaper than AVES. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/yr more in fees for AVES.
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Top shared holdings
91 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVES | In ESGE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Microelectronics Corp | 0.77% | 0.80% | 0.77% |
| 2 | Cathay Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.73% | 0.65% | 0.65% |
| 3 | Hana Financial Group Inc | 0.93% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 4 | Grupo Financiero Banorte SAB de CV | 0.52% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 5 | Qatar National Bank QPSC | 0.32% | 0.44% | 0.32% |
| 6 | Woori Financial Group Inc | 0.65% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 7 | CIMB Group Holdings Bhd | 0.31% | 0.42% | 0.31% |
| 8 | HCL Technologies Ltd | 0.34% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 9 | Polski Koncern Naftowy ORLEN SA | 0.39% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 10 | Saudi Telecom Co | 0.26% | 0.48% | 0.26% |
| 11 | SinoPac Financial Holdings Co Ltd | 0.26% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 12 | TS Financial Holding Co Ltd | 0.46% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
Only in AVES
1,791 total- LG Electronics Inc 1.58%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 1.48%
- LG Innotek Co Ltd 1.39%
- Innolux Corp 1.29%
- Unimicron Technology Corp 1.18%
- Samsung E&A Co Ltd 1.02%
- Vale SA 1.02%
- Kia Corp 0.99%
- Zhen Ding Technology Holding Ltd 0.91%
- Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd 0.73%
Only in ESGE
197 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 14.90%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 8.54%
- SK hynix Inc. 4.62%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 2.64%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 1.96%
- MediaTek Inc. 1.50%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 1.43%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1.23%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 1.21%
- Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. 1.05%
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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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