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About ISHARES TRUST
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Inception date
Apr 7, 2003
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Dividend treatment
Distributes
Distribution tax treatment
Qualified dividends
Income tax type
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Primary advisor
BlackRock Fund Advisors
Distributor
BlackRock Investments LLC
EEM one of the early entrants to provide exposure to large- and midcap emerging market equities. The fund matches the market well. In fact, it uses a similar, albeit narrower version of our MSCI benchmark. The main difference is that the fund does not go as far down the market-cap spectrum as our benchmark, ignoring many small-cap and all micro-cap firms. Still, the coverage of the space is excellent. Since it follows an MSCI index, EEM counts South Korea as emerging, while FTSE-based rival VWO does not.
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Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Finance
Electronic Technology
Technology Services
Stocks98.70%
Finance26.06%
Electronic Technology20.20%
Technology Services10.09%
Retail Trade6.59%
Energy Minerals4.10%
Non-Energy Minerals3.96%
Producer Manufacturing3.78%
Consumer Non-Durables3.42%
Consumer Durables3.36%
Transportation3.10%
Communications2.83%
Health Technology2.73%
Utilities2.68%
Process Industries1.93%
Consumer Services1.56%
Industrial Services0.85%
Health Services0.59%
Distribution Services0.50%
Commercial Services0.37%
Miscellaneous0.02%
Bonds, Cash & Other1.30%
Cash0.75%
UNIT0.54%
Rights & Warrants0.00%
Miscellaneous0.00%
Stock breakdown by region
Asia78.78%
Middle East6.84%
Latin America4.75%
Europe3.95%
Africa2.85%
North America2.81%
Oceania0.02%
Top 10 holdings
Dividends
Dividend payout history