WisdomTree Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund
$28.27−0.34 (−1.20%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.55%
- Fund size
- $139M
- 1Y return
- +4.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 6.06%
- Holdings
- 224
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $28.47
- 52W range
The ETF.net ELD Grade
Score 53 of 100 sits in the C 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.CScore 46Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 72Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 28Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 58Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 70Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 44Category rank
Our read on ELD
CMost emerging-market local-debt ETFs clone the J.P. Morgan GBI-EM index. ELD treats it as a scorecard instead: a 2010-vintage active fund picking its own mix of local-currency government bonds.
The Fund seeks high total returns combining income and capital appreciation. Its strategy is to pursue that objective primarily through debt denominated in emerging-market local currencies.
Why people hold it
- The benchmark is a yardstick, not a blueprint. An active mandate lets managers lean into or away from countries the index weights by rule.
- Co-managed by WisdomTree and Mellon Investments, so an outside bond shop's credit and currency work sits behind the portfolio.investing.com
- Spreads exposure across a couple hundred positions and every major EM region: Latin America, Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
- Income lands monthly rather than quarterly, and the mandate targets both yield and price appreciation from local-currency debt.
Worth knowing
- At 0.55%, the fee is category-median but well above the 0.30% charged by index trackers EMLC and LEMB. Active calls have to cover that gap.
- It trades far less than the category's heavyweights, so wider bid-ask spreads are more likely, especially in size or in a jumpy market.
- Currency is unhedged. Returns ride local rates and EM currencies against the dollar, which can cut both ways.wisdomtree.com
ELD Holdings
- Bonds
- 224
- 23%
- CITI REPO 3.83 092126
Geography
- China12.70%
- Brazil9.20%
- Indonesia8.30%
- South Africa8.17%
- Mexico7.05%
- Colombia6.90%
- United States5.89%
- Hungary5.56%
- 36.23%
Developed 1% · Emerging 99%
ELD Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
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 | ELD |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.8% |
| 1 month | −1.4% |
| 3 months | +1.0% |
| 1 year | +4.7% |
| 3 years | +8.0% |
| 5 years | +3.2% |
| 10 years | +2.3% |
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 | ELD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +1.8% | |
| 2025 | +21.8% | |
| 2024 | −4.6% | |
| 2023 | +14.3% | |
| 2022 | −9.2% | |
| 2021 | −9.7% | |
| 2020 | +1.8% |
ELD in the news
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ELD Dividends
- 6.06%
- $1.73
- $0.15 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 28, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 30, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.15 |
| May 26, 2026 | May 28, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Apr 27, 2026 | Apr 29, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 30, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Feb 26, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Jan 27, 2026 | Jan 29, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Dec 26, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Nov 26, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Oct 28, 2025 | Oct 30, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | $0.14 |
ELD Risk
- 9.0%
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.
- 0.33
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.
- −20.7%
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.
- 1.11
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ELD Cost
- The middle half of Emerging Markets Bonds (Local Currency) funds
- Median 0.55%
3 of the 7 Emerging Markets Bonds (Local Currency) funds charge less.