ETF comparison
AVES vs IEFA
International Emerging vs International Developed.
Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVES and IEFA would leave roughly 0.0% 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
IEFA is 29 bps cheaper than AVES. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/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 IEFA.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVES | In IEFA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Impro Precision Industries Ltd | 0.01% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Only in AVES
1,881 total- LG Electronics Inc 1.58%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 1.48%
- LG Innotek Co Ltd 1.39%
- Hyundai Motor Co 1.35%
- Innolux Corp 1.29%
- Unimicron Technology Corp 1.18%
- Samsung E&A Co Ltd 1.02%
- Vale SA 1.02%
- CTBC Financial Holding Co Ltd 1.00%
- Kia Corp 0.99%
Only in IEFA
2,612 total- ASML Holding N.V. 2.50%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 1.42%
- Roche Holding AG 1.20%
- Novartis AG 1.12%
- Nestle S.A. 1.00%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 1.00%
- SHELL PLC 1.00%
- Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 0.95%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 0.93%
- BHP GROUP LIMITED 0.83%
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- AVES vs IEMG · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 20.3%
- AVES vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 20.2%
- AVES vs PXH · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF 19.9%
More comparisons with IEFA
- IEFA vs ASHR · Xtrackers Harvest CSI 300 China A-Shares ETF 0.0%
- IEFA vs EEM · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 0.0%
- IEFA vs EMXC · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF 0.0%
- IEFA vs EPI · WisdomTree India Earnings Fund 0.0%
- IEFA vs ESGE · iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF 0.0%
- IEFA vs EWC · iShares MSCI Canada ETF 0.0%
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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