ETF comparison
FNDE vs IEFA
International Emerging vs International Developed.
Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF
Holdings overlap
2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FNDE and IEFA would leave roughly 0.1% 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
IEFA is 32 bps cheaper than FNDE. On a $100,000 position that's about $320/yr more in fees for FNDE.
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 FNDE vs IEFA.
Top shared holdings
2 shared in total| # | Holding | In FNDE | In IEFA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BOC Hong Kong Holdings Ltd | 0.26% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 2 | Metlen Energy & Metals PLC | 0.03% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in FNDE
352 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 6.48%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 3.31%
- Vale SA 3.03%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 2.72%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 2.48%
- China Construction Bank Corp 2.38%
- Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras 2.34%
- MediaTek Inc 1.80%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 1.51%
- JD.com Inc 1.38%
Only in IEFA
2,611 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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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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