Compare VAE · IEM · BEMG
VAE, IEM and BEMG hold at least 2,212 companies between them. 700 are in every one of them, and IEM and BEMG are the most alike: 80.2% of each is the same companies.
We can see through 97.4% of these funds to individual companies. The rest is cash, bonds, or a fund whose holdings we cannot see, so every figure here is a floor.
Return, last year
Price only, last year, each fund starting at 100. Switch to total return to add distributions.
Side by side
| VAE | IEM | BEMG | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fund | Vanguard | iShares | BetaShares |
| Asset class | International shares | International shares | International shares |
| Fee a year | 0.40% | 0.69% | -- |
| Fund size | $716.2m | $1.5b | $188.8m |
| Holdings | 1742 | 1172 | 1165 |
| 1Y price return | +18.8% | +18.2% | +0.2%only priced since 2026-09-24 |
| Distribution yield | 1.33% | 1.40% | Not yet |
| Look-through coverage | 99.7% | 98.8% | 93.6% |
Holdings, fund by fund
- Information Technology
- Financials
- Consumer Discretionary
- Industrials
- Communication Services
- Everything else
- Not matched to a company
- Cash
- 2330Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co LIn all 3VAE15.1%IEM15.4%BEMG15.6%
- 005930Samsung Electronics Co LtdIn all 3VAE7.2%IEM7.6%BEMG7.5%
- 000660SK HYNIX INCIn all 3VAE5.5%IEM5.8%BEMG5.8%
- 700Tencent Holdings LtdIn all 3VAE3.0%IEM2.7%BEMG2.8%
- 9988ALIBABA GROUP HOLDINGIn all 3VAE2.3%IEM1.8%BEMG1.9%
- 2454MEDIATEK INCIn all 3VAE1.5%IEM1.8%BEMG1.9%
- DBSDBS GROUP HOLDINGS LTDIn 1 of 3VAE1.0%IEMnot heldBEMGnot held
- 005935SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS PREFIn all 3VAE0.9%IEM1.0%BEMG1.0%
- 2308DELTA ELECTRONICSIn all 3VAE0.9%IEM0.9%BEMG0.9%
- 939CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORP HIn all 3VAE0.9%IEM0.8%BEMG0.8%
What each fund is in
Each figure is the company's weight inside that fund, so the funds are read against each other and nothing is added up. A company listed on two exchanges counts once in a fund. Each bar in the mix is one fund as 100% of itself. The striped colours are money we cannot see inside a company (cash, bonds, a fund we cannot open). Cash, bonds and funds we cannot open that come to under 1% of a bar are in Everything else.
What VAE already gives you
- VAE and BEMG share 863 companies78.6%A floor, not a measurement: one of these funds is not fully resolved to individual companies.
- VAE and IEM share 713 companies70.6%A floor, not a measurement: one of these funds is not fully resolved to individual companies.
- IEM and BEMG share 820 companies80.2%IEM and BEMG hold 80% the same companies.A floor, not a measurement: one of these funds is not fully resolved to individual companies.
Overlap is the smaller weight in every company both funds hold: the share of each fund the other already covers. Grouped by company, so a listing on two exchanges is one holding.
What each fund changed
Reading the holdings history…
Holdings are published monthly, so this is the last publication, not this week. A re-weight counts once it moves 0.25 points of the fund or more — below that, weights are just prices moving.