IEM - iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF

[System]

On July 8th, 2013, iShares MSCI Emerging Markets changed its name to iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF.

http://au.ishares.com/fund/fund-overview-IEM-ASX.do

 

[JohnDe]

Anyone done any homework on this?

A friend has been looking and says that it is close to buying time.

I've been looking at the US equivalents but have never considered the Aussie side. Fear is holding me back.

Emerging Market Stocks Are Beaten Down. It Might Be Time to Buy.

Emerging market stocks are starting to show signs of life. Investors might want to give the beaten-down group a closer look.

www.barrons.com

 

[divs4ever]

i held IEM between July 2011 ( @ $43.70 ) and December 2014 ( $46.35 ) , and exited at a modest profit , it just wasn't performing enough for me

good luck

 

[InsvestoBoy]

Anyone done any homework on this?

A friend has been looking and says that it is close to buying time.

I've been looking at the US equivalents but have never considered the Aussie side. Fear is holding me back.

Emerging Market Stocks Are Beaten Down. It Might Be Time to Buy.

Emerging market stocks are starting to show signs of life. Investors might want to give the beaten-down group a closer look.

www.barrons.com

I have posted this chart a bunch of times, but will share it again...

This is NYSE listed EWA (MSCI Australia) and EEM (MSCI Emerging Markets) ...using these as the total return history goes back a decent ways.

You can pretty plainly see that there's very little difference, after adjusting for currency movement, between investing in AU and EEM, mostly because the sectoral composition of the indices has historically been quite similar.

Make of that what you will.

 

[divs4ever]

Total Holdings 1271

Distinct Portfolio
Yes

Portfolio Turnover
1.21%

CODE	COMPANY	ASSET
2330	Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd	6.87%
00700	Tencent Holdings Ltd	4.23%
005930	Samsung Electronics Co Ltd	3.94%
09988	Alibaba Group Holding Ltd Ordinary Shares	2.90%
03690	Meituan Class B	1.48%

Top 10 Holdings

CODE	COMPANY	ASSET
RELIANCE	Reliance Industries Ltd	1.14%
INFY	Infosys Ltd	1.08%
9022	iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (HK)	0.96%
00939	China Construction Bank Corp Class H	0.83%
2454	MediaTek Inc	0.82%

REGION	ALLOCATION
	Asia Emerging	49.37%
	Asia Developed	29.12%
	Africa/Middle East	8.99%
	Latin America	6.68%
	Europe	5.13%
	North America	0.19%
	Australia/New Zealand	0%

Management Cost 0.68%

( Div. ) Frequency Semi-Annually

TYPE	CPS	FRANKED	EX-DIV DATE	PAY DATE
Interim	83.510	--	21/12/2021	05/01/2022
Final	49.410	--	01/07/2021	13/07/2021
Interim	56.280	--	22/12/2020	06/01/2021
Final	30.430	--	01/07/2020	13/07/2020
Interim	112.440	--	24/12/2019	08/01/2020
Interim	39.960	--	01/07/2019	11/07/2019
Interim	68.880	--	04/01/2019	16/01/2019
Final	33.080	--	20/06/2018	17/07/2018
Interim	74.530	--	20/12/2017	19/01/2018
Final	21.260	--	21/06/2017	18/07/2017

i am guessing paperwork and FX rates/costs eat the cream on this

DYOR