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About iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF
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Inception date
Oct 18, 2012
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Dividend treatment
Distributes
Distribution tax treatment
Qualified dividends
Income tax type
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Primary advisor
BlackRock Fund Advisors
Distributor
BlackRock Investments LLC
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.
Classification
Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Finance
Electronic Technology
Stocks98.58%
Finance25.08%
Electronic Technology18.73%
Technology Services9.29%
Retail Trade6.06%
Producer Manufacturing4.65%
Non-Energy Minerals4.19%
Energy Minerals3.73%
Consumer Non-Durables3.68%
Health Technology3.38%
Consumer Durables3.34%
Transportation3.06%
Process Industries2.80%
Utilities2.75%
Communications2.60%
Consumer Services1.81%
Industrial Services1.18%
Health Services0.82%
Commercial Services0.72%
Distribution Services0.69%
Miscellaneous0.02%
Bonds, Cash & Other1.42%
Cash0.85%
UNIT0.56%
Miscellaneous0.02%
Rights & Warrants0.00%
Stock breakdown by region
Asia78.20%
Middle East7.06%
Latin America4.87%
Europe4.08%
Africa3.02%
North America2.76%
Oceania0.01%
Top 10 holdings
Dividends
Dividend payout history