ETF comparison
IEFA vs PXH
International Developed vs International Emerging.
iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF · Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IEFA and PXH 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 40 bps cheaper than PXH. On a $100,000 position that's about $400/yr more in fees for PXH.
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 PXH.
Top shared holdings
2 shared in total| # | Holding | In IEFA | In PXH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BOC HONG KONG (HOLDINGS) LIMITED | 0.10% | 0.37% | 0.10% |
| 2 | YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. | 0.03% | 0.06% | 0.03% |
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%
Only in PXH
356 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. 6.18%
- Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. PETROBRAS 4.20%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. 3.31%
- China Construction Bank Corp. 2.71%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. 2.57%
- Vale S.A. 2.28%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd. 2.24%
- Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd. 1.96%
- JD.com, Inc. 1.86%
- MediaTek Inc. 1.67%
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- IEFA vs ILF · iShares Latin America 40 ETF 0.0%
- IEFA vs SCHE · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF 0.0%
- IEFA vs DFAE · Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF 0.0%
- IEFA vs AVEM · Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with PXH
- PXH vs EWY · iShares MSCI South Korea ETF 0.0%
- PXH vs FNDE · Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity ETF 80.3%
- PXH vs SCHE · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF 49.0%
- PXH vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 45.1%
- PXH vs EEM · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 42.3%
- PXH vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 41.4%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open IEFA or PXH at a brokerage
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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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