Fund · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF · measured from SEC filings
IEMG holdings
IEMG reports 2,697 holdings and behaves like 38.9 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-05-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.
Measured concentration
as of 2026-05-31Read this figure with the following in mind
5.3% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 34.9
The figure below is what the filing says, published unchanged. What it may not do is sit beside a plain long-only fund and be read as the same quantity. How comparability is decided.
Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 17.9% at a quoted market price (level 1), 37 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-05-31IEMG's largest investment is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd at 12.49% of net assets. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and SK Hynix Inc follow; the three together are 25.11%. Ten companies are 33.92% of the fund; the other 2,687 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, IEMG behaves like 38.9 holdings against a median of 42.4 — close to the median. Across 27 quarterly filings IEMG has become more concentrated: it behaved like 121.1 at 2019-11-30 and 38.9 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 65 positions were added and 71 dropped; 12.1% of the weight moved. Taiwan is the largest country at 24.48% of the portfolio, across 37 countries in the filing.
Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable equity funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.
Every filing since 2019
27Between 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, IEMG went from behaving like 121.1 equally weighted positions to 38.9 — 68% fewer, while its top ten went from 21.48% to 33.92% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 2,697 | 38.9 | 33.92% | 12.46% |
| 2026-02-28 | 2,704 | 51.7 | 28.71% | 11.36% |
| 2025-11-30 | 2,710 | 67.3 | 26.02% | 9.78% |
| 2025-08-31 | 2,691 | 80.4 | 23.87% | 8.62% |
| 2025-05-31 | 2,701 | 90 | 22.86% | 8.09% |
| 2025-02-28 | 2,779 | 83.8 | 23.88% | 8.29% |
| 2024-11-30 | 2,818 | 90.7 | 22.14% | 8.4% |
| 2024-08-31 | 2,936 | 94.3 | 21.78% | 8.1% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-31 | 2,941 | 104.5 | 21.35% | 7.37% |
| 2024-02-29 | 2,935 | 123.8 | 19.72% | 6.55% |
| 2023-11-30 | 2,740 | 130.2 | 19.77% | 5.72% |
| 2023-08-31 | 2,716 | 137 | 19.47% | 5.47% |
| 2023-05-31 | 2,703 | 124.4 | 20.19% | 6.06% |
| 2023-02-28 | 2,693 | 132.6 | 20.03% | 5.53% |
| 2022-11-30 | 2,686 | 139.9 | 19.92% | 5.32% |
| 2022-08-31 | 2,674 | 135.7 | 20.14% | 5.4% |
| 2022-05-31 | 2,574 | 124.7 | 20.69% | 5.91% |
| 2022-02-28 | 2,579 | 117.1 | 21.12% | 6.19% |
| 2021-11-30 | 2,597 | 114.6 | 21.55% | 6.02% |
| 2021-08-31 | 2,582 | 113.7 | 21.72% | 5.8% |
| 2021-05-31 | 2,617 | 107.3 | 22.7% | 5.42% |
| 2021-02-28 | 2,510 | 81.6 | 26.45% | 5.9% |
| 2020-11-30 | 2,498 | 80.8 | 26.59% | 6.19% |
| 2020-08-31 | 2,473 | 72.8 | 27.62% | 7.46% |
| 2020-05-31 | 2,467 | 91.8 | 24.67% | 6.1% |
| 2020-02-29 | 2,477 | 103.2 | 23.25% | 5.6% |
| 2019-11-30 | 2,520 | 121.1 | 21.48% | 5.21% |
One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.
Compared with, in the essays
1Overlap with other funds
1Measured against every other fund on this site, from the same filings. Combined effective holdings is how the pair behaves held in equal size.
| With | Overlap | Shared | Combined effective |
|---|---|---|---|
| IEMG vs VWO | 54.62% | 1,460 | 45.3 |
As filed, collateral included
5.31% collateralIEMG's filing lists 2,698 positions including 5.31% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 34.9 effective holdings with a top ten of 38.58%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 38.9 with a top ten of 33.92%. The collateral is matched by a liability and is not a holding the fund chose; since 2026-09-18 every figure on this site sets it aside (methodology). Both numbers are in the data.
Largest positions, as filed
as of 2026-05-31The 15 largest of 2,697 positions in IEMG's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: listed with the point-in-time files, available on request.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 12.46% | 12.5% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 6.79% | 19.3% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc. | 5.81% | 25.1% |
| 4 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 2.37% | 27.4% |
| 5 | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 1.82% | 29.2% |
| 6 | MediaTek Inc. | 1.41% | 30.7% |
| 7 | DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 1.02% | 31.7% |
| 8 | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 0.78% | 32.5% |
| 9 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 0.74% | 33.2% |
| 10 | CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION | 0.71% | 33.9% |
| 11 | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.61% | 34.5% |
| 12 | RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED | 0.58% | 35.1% |
| 13 | SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD | 0.54% | 35.6% |
| 14 | SK Square Co., Ltd. | 0.52% | 36.2% |
| 15 | ICICI BANK LIMITED | 0.48% | 36.6% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-05-31Share of IEMG's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| Taiwan | 25.78% |
| South Korea | 22.07% |
| India | 11.93% |
| Cayman Islands° | 10.26% |
| China | 8.17% |
| Brazil | 3.35% |
| South Africa | 2.68% |
| Saudi Arabia | 2.49% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-09 – 2026-05Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of IEMG's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.31 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: IEMG.json · all funds.
Who borrows IEMG's shares
2026-05-31The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-05-31, $7.8bn was out to 23 borrowers, 4.79% of net assets. The largest, MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INTERNATIONAL PLC, held 23.9% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INTERNATIONAL PLC | $1.9bn | 23.9% |
| GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL | $1.6bn | 20.7% |
| MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC | $944m | 12.2% |
| J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC | $771m | 9.9% |
| BofA Securities, Inc. | $649m | 8.4% |
Cash collateral reported against the loan: 5.31% of net assets, 110.9% of the amount lent. That is a floor on the collateral, not the whole of it — collateral the fund does not hold as a position is not in this filing, so a figure under 100% is not evidence of under-collateralisation. How that figure behaves across all funds. Every quarter IEMG has filed, with each borrower: IEMG.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-02-28 → 2026-05-312,669 positions became 2,663: 65 added (0.4% of the fund at the later date), 71 dropped (0.3% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 12.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of IEMG compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.
| Largest increases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 | Largest decreases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK hynix Inc. | 3.00% | 5.81% | Tencent Holdings Limited | 3.13% | 2.37% |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 5.27% | 6.79% | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | 2.31% | 1.82% |
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 11.36% | 12.46% | HDFC BANK LIMITED | 0.82% | 0.61% |
| MediaTek Inc. | 0.69% | 1.41% | ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI PLC | 0.48% | 0.33% |
| SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO.,LTD | 0.13% | 0.54% | Gold Fields Limited | 0.39% | 0.24% |
| DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. | 0.65% | 1.02% | XIAOMI CORPORATION | 0.57% | 0.42% |
New: Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company (0.09%), SenseTime Group Inc (0.04%), MSCI EMGMKT JUN26 (0.03%), Hesai Group (0.02%), Pony AI Inc (0.01%), Vedanta Iron and Steel Ltd (0.01%). Gone: Kiler Holding AS (0.03%), DESTEK FINANS FAKTORING ANONIM SIRKETI (0.02%), HYUNDAI AUTOEVER CORPORATION. (0.02%), DONGFENG MOTOR GROUP COMPANY LIMITED (0.02%), Wanguo Gold Group Ltd (0.02%), Two Point Zero Group P.J.S.C (0.01%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-05-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| equity EC | 91.91% |
| short-term investment STIV | 5.46% |
| unknown unknown | 2.43% |
| preferred equity EP | 0.17% |
| derivative DE | 0.03% |
17.9% of IEMG is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1); 0.0% at level 3, priced from the filer's own inputs. Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.
Derivative exposure and counterparties
as of 2026-05-31A position count cannot describe a fund that uses derivatives, because a swap is filed at its unrealised gain, not its exposure. These are the notionals the fund itself reported, against net assets of $162.03B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.
Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).
Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds
10Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of IEMG (38.9). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLOK Amplify Blockchain Technology ETF | 55 | 38.1 | 37.55% | 2026-06-30 |
| FVAL Fidelity Value Factor ETF | 127 | 38.1 | 42.28% | 2026-07-31 |
| VGSR Vert Global Sustainable Real Estate ETF | 144 | 38.4 | 44.92% | 2026-06-30 |
| AMOM QRAFT AI-Enhanced U.S. Large Cap Momentum ETF | 51 | 38.5 | 37.49% | 2026-07-31 |
| EWJV iShares MSCI Japan Value ETF | 110 | 38.8 | 40.62% | 2026-05-31 |
| DUHP Dimensional US High Profitability ETF | 150 | 39.3 | 41.44% | 2026-07-31 |
| EMGF iShares Emerging Markets Equity Factor ETF | 631 | 39.3 | 35.68% | 2026-05-31 |
| SEEM SEI Select Emerging Markets Equity ETF | 264 | 39.3 | 36.11% | 2026-06-30 |
| GII State Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P(R) Global Infrastructure ETF | 78 | 39.4 | 38.71% | 2026-06-30 |
| QVML Invesco S&P 500 QVM Multi-Factor ETF | 448 | 39.5 | 41.66% | 2026-05-31 |
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