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IEFA vs ILF

International Developed vs International Emerging.

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF · iShares Latin America 40 ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IEFA and ILF would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

IEFA unmatched 99.5% Shared 0.0% ILF unmatched 98.9%

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.

In IEFA only
2,612 positions
Shared
1 positions
In ILF only
40 positions

Side by side

IEFA

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF

iShares · International Developed

92 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.070%
Net assets
$190.21B
TTM yield
3.44%
Top-10 conc.
11.9%
ILF

iShares Latin America 40 ETF

iShares · International Emerging

62 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.47%
Net assets
$3.84B
TTM yield
3.13%
Top-10 conc.
54.6%

Sub-score comparison

93
Cost
53
76
Tax efficiency
74
100
Liquidity
82
97
Concentration
36
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Tracking quality
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IEFA sub-score ILF

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

IEFA is 40 bps cheaper than ILF. On a $100,000 position that's about $400/yr more in fees for ILF.

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 IEFA vs ILF.

Top shared holdings

1 shared in total
# Holding In IEFA In ILF Overlap
1 MILLICOM INTERNATIONAL CELLULAR S.A. 0.04% 1.41% 0.04%

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%

Only in ILF

40 total
  • VALE S.A. 8.40%
  • Nu Holdings Ltd. 8.17%
  • Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. 7.04%
  • Grupo Mexico, S.A.B. de C.V. 5.62%
  • Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 5.15%
  • Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) 4.79%
  • CREDICORP LTD. 4.22%
  • Grupo Financiero Banorte, S.A.B. de C.V. 4.07%
  • America Movil, S.A.B. de C.V. 3.72%
  • Fomento Economico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. 3.40%

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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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