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About iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF
Expense ratio
0.09%
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Inception date
Oct 18, 2012
IEMG offers outstanding coverage of emerging markets. As part of the line of 'Core' ETFs from BlackRock, it offers very similar but more comprehensive exposure than its sister fund EEM by including smaller firms in the portfolio. IEMG follows the same MSCI index as our benchmark and so it counts South Korea as an emerging market, in contrast to FTSE-based funds such as VWO. The fund does not fully replicate the underlying index, yet uses a representative sampling. A strategy commonly used in order to reach or exclude securities for preferred investing or trading purposes. Over time the fund manager expects tracking err to be less than 5%. Also a common practice worth noting, the fund uses a subsidiary located in the Republic of Mauritius to invest portion of the portfolio in India.
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Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Finance
Electronic Technology
Stocks97.63%
Finance23.40%
Electronic Technology19.80%
Technology Services9.47%
Retail Trade5.33%
Producer Manufacturing4.65%
Non-Energy Minerals3.96%
Energy Minerals3.88%
Consumer Non-Durables3.62%
Consumer Durables3.42%
Transportation3.34%
Health Technology3.21%
Process Industries3.06%
Utilities2.76%
Communications2.33%
Consumer Services1.82%
Industrial Services1.20%
Health Services0.90%
Commercial Services0.73%
Distribution Services0.72%
Miscellaneous0.02%
Bonds, Cash & Other2.37%
Cash1.84%
UNIT0.47%
Miscellaneous0.07%
Rights & Warrants0.00%
Stock breakdown by region
Asia79.02%
Middle East7.08%
North America4.13%
Latin America3.97%
Africa3.19%
Europe2.62%
Oceania0.00%
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Dividend payout history