iShares ESG Aware MSCI EM ETF
$55.06−1.01 (−1.81%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.25%
- Fund size
- $7.1B
- 1Y return
- +32.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.02%
- Holdings
- 294
- Volume · 30D
- 0.9M sh
- NAV per share
- $55.98
- 52W range
The ETF.net ESGE Grade
Score 76 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.BScore 63Category 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.BScore 57Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 86Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 62Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 96Category rank
Our read on ESGE
AThe ESG emerging-markets fund built to not feel different: it screens MSCI's EM universe for environmental, social and governance traits while keeping risk and return close to the parent index, for 0.25% a year.
The fund seeks to track large- and mid-capitalization emerging-market equities with positive environmental, social, and governance characteristics, while maintaining risk and return characteristics similar to its parent index.
Why people hold it
- 0.25% a year, below the typical fee among ESG emerging-market ETFs.
- "Aware" is the whole design: the index tilts toward better ESG-rated companies while targeting risk and return characteristics similar to the standard MSCI EM parent.ishares.com
- Trading since 2016 and now a multi-billion-dollar, actively traded fund, which is a rare combination in a corner full of small, thinly used products.
- Does exactly what its name says: full-time exposure to large- and mid-cap emerging-market stocks via the MSCI Emerging Markets Extended ESG Focus Index, one of the cleanest mandate fits in its peer group.ishares.com
Worth knowing
- It is a tilt, not a purge. Because the index chases parent-like risk and return, the lineup stays close to mainstream EM rather than a deep-green portfolio.ishares.com
- Screening narrows the field to roughly 300 stocks, so holdings and country weights drift from a plain emerging-markets index fund.
- Not the cheapest badge in the aisle: sibling LDEM runs 0.16%, though it takes a stricter ESG-leaders approach.
ESGE Holdings
- Stocks
- 294
- 39%
- 2330.TW
Sectors
- Technology43.3%
- Financials24.3%
- Communication6.7%
- Consumer Discr.6.3%
- Industrials5.2%
- Materials4.9%
- Health Care2.6%
- Cons. Staples2.3%
- Energy2.0%
- Utilities1.3%
- Real Estate1.1%
Geography
- Taiwan29.57%
- South Korea21.34%
- China18.32%
- India9.80%
- Brazil3.78%
- South Africa2.96%
- Saudi Arabia2.07%
- Malaysia1.91%
- 10.25%
Developed 3% · Emerging 97%
ESGE 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 | ESGE |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +27.9% |
| 1 month | +4.0% |
| 3 months | −1.3% |
| 1 year | +32.8% |
| 3 years | +25.4% |
| 5 years | +8.8% |
| 10 years | +9.4% |
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 | ESGE |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +27.9% | |
| 2025 | +35.9% | |
| 2024 | +6.6% | |
| 2023 | +9.5% | |
| 2022 | −22.4% | |
| 2021 | −2.8% | |
| 2020 | +18.6% |
ESGE in the news
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ESGE Dividends
- 2.02%
- $1.13
- $0.40 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.40 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.73 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.37 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Jan 3, 2025 | $0.02 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.53 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.25 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.62 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.23 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.53 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.28 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $0.83 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.23 |
ESGE Risk
- 15.3%
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.
- 1.14
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.
- −36.2%
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.
- 1.01
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ESGE Cost
- The middle half of Emerging Markets ESG & Values Index funds
- Median 0.33%
4 of the 12 Emerging Markets ESG & Values Index funds charge less.