ETF comparison
CWI vs IEMG
International Total vs International Emerging.
State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
508 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CWI and IEMG would leave roughly 20.4% 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
IEMG is 21 bps cheaper than CWI. On a $100,000 position that's about $210/yr more in fees for CWI.
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 CWI vs IEMG.
Top shared holdings
508 shared in total| # | Holding | In CWI | In IEMG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SK hynix Inc | 2.56% | 5.82% | 2.56% |
| 2 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 0.89% | 2.37% | 0.89% |
| 3 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 0.52% | 1.82% | 0.52% |
| 4 | MediaTek Inc | 0.49% | 1.42% | 0.49% |
| 5 | Delta Electronics Inc | 0.45% | 1.02% | 0.45% |
| 6 | SK Square Co Ltd | 0.26% | 0.53% | 0.26% |
| 7 | China Construction Bank Corp | 0.23% | 0.71% | 0.23% |
| 8 | HDFC Bank Ltd | 0.23% | 0.61% | 0.23% |
| 9 | ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd | 0.19% | 0.44% | 0.19% |
| 10 | Yageo Corp | 0.18% | 0.26% | 0.18% |
| 11 | Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co Ltd | 0.17% | 0.54% | 0.17% |
| 12 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 0.16% | 0.74% | 0.16% |
Only in CWI
624 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 5.38%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 2.90%
- ASML Holding NV 2.12%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.95%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.90%
- Roche Holding AG 0.82%
- Novartis AG 0.79%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.76%
- Nestle SA 0.72%
- Siemens AG 0.69%
Only in IEMG
2,159 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 12.49%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 6.80%
- HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 0.79%
- RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED 0.58%
- ICICI BANK LIMITED 0.48%
- United Microelectronics Corporation 0.35%
- Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. 0.29%
- INFOSYS LIMITED 0.27%
- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 0.26%
- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 0.24%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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