FLCH vs TCHI

FLCHAFranklin FTSE China ETF

TCHIBiShares MSCI China Multisector Tech ETF

In short

FLCH Cheap and wide, in the best way. FLCH holds roughly a thousand Chinese stocks and charges 0.19% a year, a fraction of what most single-country China funds ask. Whole market, small toll.

TCHI Chinese tech spills well past the tech sector, so this iShares fund goes looking across several. It tracks a capped MSCI index of Chinese technology and related industries, roughly 190 names, at 0.59%.

Stated mandate

FLCH The Fund seeks investment results that closely correspond, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the FTSE China RIC Capped Index.

TCHI The fund seeks to track an index containing Chinese equities in technology and related industries.

Why people hold it

• FLCH 0.19% a year, against a roughly 0.70% median for China funds. It also undercuts the category stalwarts MCHI and GXC, both at 0.59%.
• About 1,000 holdings, so you own the long tail of Chinese listings rather than a short list of mega-cap headline names.
• One job, done tightly: mirror the FTSE China RIC Capped Index before fees. On tracking it ranks among the strongest builds in its China peer group.sec.gov

• TCHI Cross-sector by design: the index reaches into technology and related industries rather than one sector bucket, and it caps weights so no single giant dominates.
• 0.59% a year undercuts the 0.70% median for single-country China funds.
• Roughly 190 holdings, so the theme rides on a broad bench instead of three or four megacaps.
• Plain vanilla wrapper: a 1940 Act index fund from iShares, live since 2022, no derivatives layer to decode.

Worth knowing

• FLCH It is China or nothing. Policy shifts, regulatory news and the currency drive the ride, with no other market in the basket to cushion it.
• Mid-sized and only moderately traded next to the category's giants, so bid-ask spreads can bite more on larger orders.
• Cash comes once or twice a year, not monthly. This is an equity index vehicle, not an income schedule.

• TCHI That 0.59% is exactly what broad China funds MCHI and GXC charge, so the narrower tech slice costs what whole-market exposure does.
• A small fund that trades lightly, so spreads can run wider than the headline China ETFs, most noticeably on big or hurried orders.
• One country, one theme. Chinese policy and regulatory swings land here undiluted, and payouts come once or twice a year rather than quarterly.

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