emerging markets ETFs

As one of Wall Street’s favorite buzzwords, the term “emerging market” gets thrown around quite a bit. Broadly defined, an emerging market is a country whose business and financial infrastructure is somewhere between being underdeveloped (like, say, Kenya) and highly complex (like...

Many diversified emerging markets exchange-traded funds are heavily allocated to Asia. Whether those funds track the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, related benchmarks or not, the prominence of Asian countries is supposedly diversified emerging markets funds is reflective of the continent's...

Emerging markets equities and the corresponding exchange-traded funds are among this year's best-performing assets, but that is also a reminder that not all emerging markets ETFs are created equal. Investors looking for the next frontiers of developing markets economic growth may want to...

A plethora of diversified emerging markets exchange-traded funds are soaring this year, including some smart beta strategies. That includes the FlexShares Morningstar Emerging Markets Factor Tilt Index Fund (NYSE: TLTE), one of the more seasoned alternatives to cap-weighted emerging markets ETFs....

Emerging markets equities are soaring this year, extending a rebound that started last year. That theme extends to developing world dividend payers, which can serve as satellite, tactical positions for investors searching for income and some international portfolio diversity. Conventional wisdom...

Diversified emerging markets exchange-traded funds delivered solid performances last year, a fact made all the more impressive when considering Chinese equities lagged. China is often the largest country weight by a wide margin in broad emerging markets ETFs. 2016 Performances In 2016, the widely...

Smart beta is one of the fast-growing parts of the exchange-traded funds space and as the idea of weighting by factors and fundamentals has gained traction, more and more emerging markets ETFs have appeared that eschew traditional cap-weighted methodology. Emerging Markets ETFs That group includes...

Earlier this year, the low volatility factor was the object of much attention and adulation, and that affection was not limited to U.S.-focused exchange-traded funds. iShares EEMV The iShares Edge MSCI Min Vol Emerging Markets ETF, iShares Inc. (NYSE: EEMV) also caught investors' attention, as...

The iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (iShares Inc. (NYSE: IEMG)) is up 17.6 percent year-to-date, good for one of the better showings among diversified emerging markets exchange-traded funds. IEMG and rival diversified emerging markets ETFs are heading toward their best annual...

Major India exchange-traded funds are still lagging the MSCI Emerging Markets Index on a year-to-date basis, but some market observers believe stocks in Asia's third-largest economy have the ability to play catch-up with a run that could extend into next year. ETFs such as the iShares S&P...

Emerging markets stocks and exchange-traded funds are back in style this year, but some ETFs tracking developing economies are going unnoticed. That is particularly true of emerging markets small-cap ETFs. Perhaps the reason for that is investors often associate smaller stocks with volatility and...

The Market Vector Russia ETF Trust (NYSE: RSX), the largest exchange-traded fund dedicated to Russian equities listed in New York, is one of this year's best-performing emerging markets single-country ETFs. Up 19.2 percent on the year, RSX is sporting a gain that is nearly 50 percent better...

Sometimes, being different is good. That is true of emerging markets exchange-traded funds. Since the dawn of the ETF industry more than 20 years ago, advisors and investors have flocked to traditional, cap-weighted emerging markets ETFs. However, as investing in emerging economies has changed over...

Conventional wisdom would dictate that although emerging markets stocks and the relevant exchange-traded funds are performing better this year than they have over the past couple of years, this probably is not the time to embrace Indian stocks. After all, commodities prices are rebounding, and that...

Emerging markets stocks and exchange-traded funds are thought to be strong performers this year, but the reality is the MSCI Emerging Markets Index is down 0.1 percent. Still, that is better than what investors became accustomed to diversified emerging markets benchmarks over the past few years....