ETF comparison
IEFA vs SCHE
International Developed vs International Emerging.
iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF · Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IEFA and SCHE would leave roughly 0.0% 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
SCHE is 1 bps cheaper than IEFA. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for IEFA.
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 SCHE.
Top shared holdings
2 shared in total| # | Holding | In IEFA | In SCHE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | YANGZIJIANG SHIPBUILDING (HOLDINGS) LTD. | 0.03% | 0.07% | 0.03% |
| 2 | Yangzijiang Financial Holding Ltd | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
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 SCHE
2,173 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 17.06%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 3.15%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 2.57%
- MediaTek Inc 1.88%
- Delta Electronics Inc 1.40%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 1.04%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.88%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.88%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.83%
- ICICI Bank Ltd 0.65%
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- SCHE vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 83.7%
- SCHE vs EEM · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF 73.7%
- SCHE vs SPEM · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF 70.4%
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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