iShares ESG Advanced MSCI EM ETF
$58.22−1.18 (−1.98%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.16%
- Fund size
- $171M
- 1Y return
- +34.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.58%
- Holdings
- 560
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $58.83
- 52W range
The ETF.net EMXF Grade
Score 79 of 100 sits in the A 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 84Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 76Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 47Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 78Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 54Category rank
Our read on EMXF
AThe strict end of ESG in emerging markets. EMXF follows an index that demands stronger ESG ratings, screens out a long list of controversial businesses, and caps any single issuer at 5% so no one giant runs the show.
The fund is designed to follow an emerging-market equity index that emphasizes stronger ESG ratings and applies extensive screens to controversial business activities.
Why people hold it
- The "Advanced" label means deep screening: an index built on stronger ESG ratings plus extensive exclusions for controversial business activities, not one or two token cuts.ishares.com
- The index caps each issuer at 5%, which matters in emerging markets, where plain cap-weighted portfolios lean hard on a few chip and tech behemoths.ishares.com
- 0.16% a year is modest for a heavily screened fund, and it sits below the typical expense ratio in its emerging-markets peer group.
- Roughly 600 large and mid caps across emerging markets: the screens trim the field without collapsing it into a concentrated handful of names.
Worth knowing
- Unscreened emerging-markets trackers such as VWO and SCHE run at a fraction of this expense ratio. The screening is what you are paying for.
- A smaller, thinly traded fund. Spreads can widen, so the price on screen and the price you get are not always the same thing.
- Cutting whole slices of the emerging-markets universe means this portfolio can look and behave quite differently from a standard EM index, in either direction.
EMXF Holdings
- Stocks
- 560
- 28%
- 000660.KS
Sectors
- Financials37.4%
- Technology30.8%
- Communication9.0%
- Industrials5.9%
- Consumer Discr.5.1%
- Health Care4.3%
- Cons. Staples2.8%
- Materials2.7%
- Real Estate1.4%
- Utilities0.6%
- Energy0.0%
Geography
- Taiwan (Province of China)25.46%
- China23.04%
- Korea (the Republic of)14.48%
- India10.09%
- Brazil3.80%
- Saudi Arabia3.38%
- South Africa2.45%
- United Arab Emirates2.10%
- 15.20%
Developed 2% · Emerging 98%
EMXF 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 | EMXF |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +28.7% |
| 1 month | +4.8% |
| 3 months | −0.7% |
| 1 year | +34.9% |
| 3 years | +23.5% |
| 5 years | +9.1% |
| 10 years | — |
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 | EMXF |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +28.7% | |
| 2025 | +29.4% | |
| 2024 | +8.0% | |
| 2023 | +6.7% | |
| 2022 | −19.1% | |
| 2021 | +4.5% | |
| 2020 | +14.8% |
EMXF in the news
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EMXF Dividends
- 2.58%
- $1.53
- $0.47 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.47 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $1.07 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.53 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Jan 3, 2025 | $0.03 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.75 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.31 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.56 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.24 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.61 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.21 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $0.62 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.18 |
EMXF Risk
- 14.0%
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.
- 1.13
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.
- −30.7%
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.
- 0.94
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
EMXF Cost
- The middle half of Emerging Markets ESG & Values Index funds
- Median 0.33%
2 of the 12 Emerging Markets ESG & Values Index funds charge less.