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IEFA vs MCHI

International Developed vs International Emerging.

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF · iShares MSCI China ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

IEFA unmatched 99.6% Shared 0.0% MCHI unmatched 99.3%

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
2,613 positions
Shared
0 positions
In MCHI only
576 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%
MCHI

iShares MSCI China ETF

iShares · International Emerging

62 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.59%
Net assets
$5.99B
TTM yield
2.24%
Top-10 conc.
41.3%

Sub-score comparison

93
Cost
41
76
Tax efficiency
76
100
Liquidity
90
97
Concentration
55
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Tracking quality
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IEFA sub-score MCHI

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

Cost difference

IEFA is 52 bps cheaper than MCHI. On a $100,000 position that's about $520/yr more in fees for MCHI.

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 MCHI.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in IEFA

2,613 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 MCHI

576 total
  • Tencent Holdings Limited 13.21%
  • Alibaba Group Holding Limited 10.14%
  • CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 3.97%
  • XIAOMI CORPORATION 2.35%
  • PDD Holdings Inc. 2.28%
  • INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED 2.10%
  • Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. 1.96%
  • MEITUAN 1.84%
  • BANK OF CHINA LIMITED 1.80%
  • NETEASE, INC. 1.63%

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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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