EIDO vs FLMX

EIDODiShares MSCI Indonesia ETF

FLMXBFranklin FTSE Mexico ETF

In short

EIDO Indonesia, packaged. Since 2010 EIDO has tracked an MSCI index that runs from Jakarta's big banks down to small caps, with issuer caps that stop any one giant from swallowing the fund.

FLMX Mexico exposure at a discount. Franklin's tracker charges 0.19%, a fraction of what single-country emerging-market funds usually cost, and holds a compact basket of the country's largest listed companies.

Stated mandate

EIDO The fund seeks to track an index composed of Indonesian equities, providing targeted exposure to companies in Indonesia.

FLMX The Fund seeks to track the performance of the FTSE Mexico Capped Index before fees and expenses through an indexing strategy, investing at least 80% of assets in index components or related exposure.

Why people hold it

• EIDO Trading since 2010 and actively traded today, it's an established US-listed way to own Indonesian stocks directly rather than through a broad emerging markets blend.ishares.com
• Its index follows MSCI's 25/50 rules: no single issuer above 25%, and all 5%-plus positions capped at 50% combined. A real guardrail in a market led by a few banks.msci.com
• IMI means investable market: roughly 70 large, mid and small caps, not just the two or three megacaps foreign investors usually reach for.ishares.com

• FLMX At 0.19%, one of the cheapest wrappers for Mexican equities: well under the roughly 0.59% median in its single-country EM cohort, and under EWW's 0.50%.
• Plain, rules-based mandate: it tracks the FTSE Mexico Capped Index, keeping at least 80% of assets in index components or related exposure. No manager guesswork.
• The index is a capped one, which limits how much of the portfolio any single Mexican mega-cap can occupy.
• Live since 2017 and, on our review, one of the stronger implementations among single-country emerging-market funds.

Worth knowing

• EIDO 0.59% a year is the median for single-country emerging market ETFs, not the bargain end. The cheapest in that group, Franklin's FLMX, charges 0.19% (for Mexico).
• One country, one currency. Rupiah moves and local policy land straight in the price, and it has been among the more volatile funds in its single-country peer group.ishares.com
• On our overall read it lands in the lower half of the single-country emerging market group, mostly on that volatility plus a middle-of-the-road fee.

• FLMX Thinly traded. Spreads can run wider than at the category's busiest funds, which adds to the real cost of getting in and out beyond the headline fee.
• One country, roughly 40 stocks. Concentration is the point, but it means Mexican policy, oil and peso moves all land straight in a dollar-based return.
• Income arrives quarterly, not monthly.

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