MSCI World or MSCI Emerging Markets? Comparison, Returns & Historical Performance
The two indices share 0.0 % of their weight across 0 companies, and their daily returns correlate at 0.74. Small overlap and limited co-movement: these are two genuinely different building blocks.
Side by side
| MSCI World | MSCI Emerging Markets | |
|---|---|---|
| Holdings covered | 1,131 | 1,064 |
| Volatility | 15.5 % | 21.8 % |
| Max drawdown | -16.9 % | -18.7 % |
| Cheapest ETF we cover | SPPW · 0.12 % | SPYM · 0.18 % |
Overlap and shared positions are computed from the holdings of one representative ETF each (XDWL and SPYM); of those we could attribute 94.7 % and 77.8 % of fund weight to individual companies, so real overlap is likely a little higher. The correlation covers 534 shared trading days.
The largest single holdings
MSCI World
NVIDIA Corporation 5.62 %
Apple Inc. 5.43 %
Microsoft Corporation 3.83 %
Amazon.com Inc. 2.70 %
Alphabet Inc. Class A 2.26 %
Broadcom Inc. 1.78 %- Alphabet Inc. Class C 1.77 %
Meta Platforms Inc Class A 1.61 %
Micron Technology Inc. 1.26 %
Tesla Inc. 1.15 %
MSCI Emerging Markets
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. 15.48 %
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. 7.17 %
SK hynix Inc. 6.02 %- Tencent Holdings Ltd 2.66 %
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 1.90 %
MediaTek Inc 1.74 %- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Pfd Non-Voting 0.93 %
Delta Electronics Inc. 0.85 %- China Construction Bank Corporation Class H 0.85 %
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. 0.79 %
More comparisons with these indices
| Comparison | Overlap |
|---|---|
| MSCI World vs MSCI World IMI | 84 % |
| MSCI World vs MSCI ACWI | 83 % |
| MSCI World vs MSCI USA | 71 % |
| MSCI World vs MSCI ACWI IMI | 70 % |
| MSCI World vs S&P 500 | 69 % |
| MSCI Emerging Markets vs MSCI EM IMI | 65 % |
| MSCI World vs MSCI World Quality | 40 % |
| MSCI World vs Nasdaq 100 | 40 % |
| MSCI World vs MSCI World Momentum | 30 % |
| MSCI World vs MSCI World Informationstechnologie | 30 % |
| MSCI World vs MSCI World Minimum Volatility | 28 % |
| MSCI World vs MSCI World ex USA | 24 % |
In the Alysly network
How MSCI World connects to ETFs, indices and neighbouring names — every link is a measured relation, not a recommendation.
- Apple Stock · contains
- Micron Technology Stock · contains
- Microsoft Corporation Stock · contains
- NVIDIA Corporation Stock · contains
- SWWD ETF · tracks
- EUNL ETF · tracks
- SPPW ETF · tracks
- XDWD ETF · tracks
- XDWL ETF · tracks
- URTH ETF · tracks