Hartford Multifactor Emerging Markets ETF
$36.12−0.43 (−1.19%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.44%
- Fund size
- $111M
- 1Y return
- +33.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.31%
- Holdings
- 343
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $36.38
- 52W range
The ETF.net ROAM Grade
Score 65 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.BScore 61Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 79Category 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.AScore 90Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 46Category rank
Our read on ROAM
BEmerging markets, rebuilt by rulebook: ROAM's index screens roughly 300 stocks for value, quality and momentum, and is built to balance risk against return instead of letting the biggest markets set the agenda.
The Fund seeks to track the total return of the Hartford Multifactor Emerging Markets Equity Index, a rules-based emerging-markets equity index designed to balance risk and return while emphasizing favorable factor characteristics.
Why people hold it
- Three factors, one wrapper. The index leans on value, quality and momentum together rather than riding a single style through EM's mood swings.
- A 0.44% expense ratio runs below the median fee for multifactor emerging-markets funds.
- Trading since 2015, so the rulebook has been live through real EM cycles, not just backtests.
- About 300 holdings spread the bets wide, and the portfolio build stands among the stronger ones in its multifactor EM peer group.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded, which usually means wider bid-ask spreads than the giant cap-weighted EM funds carry.
- Cheaper factor-flavored EM options exist in the same cohort: EMGF at 0.26% and QEMM at 0.30%.
- Cash comes annually or semiannually, not quarterly, and the fund remains small by category standards.
ROAM Holdings
- Stocks
- 343
- 10%
- 5274.TWO
Sectors
- Technology39.4%
- Financials20.3%
- Communication6.8%
- Consumer Discr.6.6%
- Industrials5.5%
- Energy5.1%
- Materials4.3%
- Cons. Staples4.0%
- Health Care4.0%
- Utilities2.6%
- Real Estate1.5%
Geography
- Taiwan17.51%
- India15.05%
- China13.45%
- South Korea12.03%
- Brazil5.22%
- Saudi Arabia4.95%
- Malaysia4.04%
- Thailand3.98%
- 23.78%
Developed 3% · Emerging 97%
ROAM 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 | ROAM |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +26.6% |
| 1 month | +1.8% |
| 3 months | −2.0% |
| 1 year | +33.3% |
| 3 years | +24.7% |
| 5 years | +12.9% |
| 10 years | +8.9% |
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 | ROAM |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +26.6% | |
| 2025 | +32.0% | |
| 2024 | +6.2% | |
| 2023 | +21.3% | |
| 2022 | −14.8% | |
| 2021 | +9.3% | |
| 2020 | +2.2% |
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ROAM Dividends
- 2.31%
- $0.84
- $0.33 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.51 |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Jun 27, 2025 | $0.41 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.74 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jul 1, 2024 | $0.21 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 28, 2023 | $0.86 |
| Jun 26, 2023 | Jun 29, 2023 | $0.35 |
| Dec 22, 2022 | Dec 28, 2022 | $0.70 |
| Jun 27, 2022 | Jun 30, 2022 | $0.32 |
| Dec 22, 2021 | Dec 28, 2021 | $0.70 |
| Jun 25, 2021 | Jun 30, 2021 | $0.31 |
| Dec 23, 2020 | Dec 29, 2020 | $0.42 |
ROAM Risk
- 14.2%
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.
- 1.29
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.
- −26.1%
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.
ROAM Cost
- The middle half of Emerging Markets Multifactor funds
- Median 0.47%
7 of the 20 Emerging Markets Multifactor funds charge less.