ETF comparison
ILF vs SPEM
Both International Emerging.
iShares Latin America 40 ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
32 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ILF and SPEM would leave roughly 4.9% 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
SPEM 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 ILF vs SPEM.
Top shared holdings
32 shared in total| # | Holding | In ILF | In SPEM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VALE S.A. | 8.40% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 2 | Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. | 7.04% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 3 | Nu Holdings Ltd. | 8.17% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 4 | Grupo Mexico, S.A.B. de C.V. | 5.62% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 5 | CREDICORP LTD. | 4.22% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 6 | Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) | 5.15% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 7 | Grupo Financiero Banorte, S.A.B. de C.V. | 4.07% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 8 | America Movil, S.A.B. de C.V. | 3.72% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 9 | Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) | 4.79% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 10 | Fomento Economico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. | 3.40% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 11 | Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V. | 2.90% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 12 | Banco Bradesco S.A. | 2.92% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
Only in ILF
9 total- AXIA Energia S.A. 1.88%
- Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile S.A. 1.68%
- Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico, S.A.B. de C.V. 1.65%
- MILLICOM INTERNATIONAL CELLULAR S.A. 1.41%
- Arca Continental, S.A.B. de C.V. 0.94%
- Banco Santander-Chile 0.82%
- TELEFONICA BRASIL S.A 0.78%
- GRUPO CARSO, S.A.B. DE C.V. 0.64%
- Ecopetrol S.A. 0.56%
Only in SPEM
2,883 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 14.65%
- Tencent Holdings Ltd 2.74%
- MediaTek Inc 1.82%
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 1.79%
- Delta Electronics Inc 1.13%
- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 0.93%
- HDFC Bank Ltd 0.83%
- ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd 0.82%
- China Construction Bank Corp 0.81%
- Reliance Industries Ltd 0.80%
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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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