ETF comparison
MCHI vs VT
International Emerging vs Global Stock (incl. US).
iShares MSCI China ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
569 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MCHI and VT would leave roughly 2.4% 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
VT is 53 bps cheaper than MCHI. On a $100,000 position that's about $530/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 MCHI vs VT.
Top shared holdings
569 shared in total| # | Holding | In MCHI | In VT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 13.21% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 2 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 10.14% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 3 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 3.97% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 4 | INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 2.10% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 5 | PDD Holdings Inc. | 2.28% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 6 | MEITUAN | 1.84% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 7 | XIAOMI CORPORATION | 2.35% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 8 | NETEASE, INC. | 1.63% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 9 | Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. | 1.96% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 10 | BANK OF CHINA LIMITED | 1.80% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 11 | BYD COMPANY LIMITED | 1.63% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 12 | JD.COM, INC. | 1.31% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
Only in MCHI
7 total- H World Group Limited 0.34%
- Midea Group Co., Ltd. 0.10%
- Hesai Group 0.08%
- Legend Biotech Corp 0.07%
- Pony AI Inc 0.07%
- ZHEJIANG CENTURY HUATONG GROUP CO., LTD 0.03%
- China Life Insurance Company Limited 0.03%
Only in VT
9,481 total- NVIDIA Corp 4.06%
- Apple Inc 3.87%
- Microsoft Corp 2.99%
- Amazon.com Inc 2.28%
- Alphabet Inc 1.83%
- Broadcom Inc 1.57%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 1.56%
- Alphabet Inc 1.44%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.06%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.81%
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- MCHI vs EWT · iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF 0.0%
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- VT vs BBAX · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Developed Asia Pacific ex-Japan ETF 1.9%
- VT vs EWL · iShares MSCI Switzerland ETF 1.8%
- VT vs EWG · iShares MSCI Germany ETF 1.7%
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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