Franklin Emerging Market Core Dividend Tilt Index ETF
$43.51−0.58 (−1.33%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.19%
- Fund size
- $95M
- 1Y return
- +40.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.57%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $43.37
- 52W range
The ETF.net DIEM Grade
Score 67 of 100 sits in the B band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.AScore 93Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 77Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 47Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 51Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 36Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 49Category rank
Our read on DIEM
BMost emerging-market dividend funds hunt the fattest yields. DIEM starts from a broad EM benchmark and leans toward payers instead, keeping the market's shape intact, for a fraction of what its dividend-focused rivals charge.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the Morningstar Emerging Markets Dividend Enhanced Select Index.
Why people hold it
- At 0.19% a year it's the cheapest fund in its emerging-market dividend cohort, roughly a third of the group's median fee.
- Tilt, not lurch: the index takes a broad emerging-market parent benchmark and optimizes for higher dividend yield while limiting expected tracking error back to it.finance.yahoo.comfranklintempleton.com
- Roughly 200 holdings spread across emerging markets, with income paid quarterly.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded next to the category's household names, so spreads can run wider and larger orders need more care.
- It launched in 2016 under a different name and mandate; the dividend-tilt index arrived in 2022, so the earliest track record reflects a different strategy.cbonds.com
- The income lean is bounded by design. Staying close to the parent index means less yield punch than funds that screen only for the highest payers.finance.yahoo.com
DIEM Holdings
- Stocks
- —
- 35%
- 2330.TW
Sectors
- Technology42.2%
- Financials23.7%
- Consumer Discr.5.6%
- Energy5.5%
- Communication5.2%
- Materials4.9%
- Industrials4.2%
- Utilities3.3%
- Cons. Staples3.0%
- Real Estate1.6%
- Health Care0.8%
Geography
- Taiwan28.26%
- South Korea18.15%
- China15.29%
- India6.77%
- Brazil5.76%
- Saudi Arabia4.14%
- South Africa3.91%
- United Arab Emirates3.47%
- 14.26%
Developed 2% · Emerging 98%
DIEM Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
DIEM$14,079
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | DIEM |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +33.6% |
| 1 month | +4.0% |
| 3 months | −2.2% |
| 1 year | +40.8% |
| 3 years | +28.4% |
| 5 years | +12.7% |
| 10 years | +8.7% |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | DIEM |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +33.6% | |
| 2025 | +30.8% | |
| 2024 | +12.3% | |
| 2023 | +15.4% | |
| 2022 | −20.6% | |
| 2021 | +7.0% | |
| 2020 | +1.3% |
DIEM in the news
DIEM Dividends
- 2.57%
- $1.13
- $0.23 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Pays Sep 25, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Jun 26, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | $0.52 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 27, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 8, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $0.26 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 26, 2025 | $0.33 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 27, 2025 | $0.31 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Mar 28, 2025 | $0.04 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 27, 2024 | $0.46 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.59 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 25, 2024 | $0.03 |
DIEM Risk
- 14.3%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 1.44
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −33.3%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 1.04
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DIEM Cost
0.19%
DIEM0.19%
- The middle half of Emerging Markets Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.59%
No Emerging Markets Dividend Index fund charges less.