HILO is a passive ETF designed to provide high income and to be significantly less volatile than the MSCI Emerging Markets Index through the utilization of low beta stocks. HILO is broad based with exposure to multiple countries and sectors with quarterly income distributions. Additional risk criteria correlated to the MSCI Emerging Market Index limits concentration in any position to 5% and country exposure to a maximum of 5 positions. HILO does not use any options, derivates or leverage in attaining its income distribution.
The EGShares Low Volatility Emerging Markets Dividend exchange-traded fund (ETF) seeks investment results that correspond (before fees and expenses) to the price and yield performance of the Indxx Low Volatility Emerging Markets Dividend Index.
(As of 9/30/2011) |
ETF Ticker (NYSE): |
HILO |
Bloomberg Index Ticker: |
IHILOT |
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Inception Date |
8/4/2011 |
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Net Expenses* |
0.85% |
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Index Holdings |
29 |
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Index Average Market Cap |
$8.7B |
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Index Median Market Cap |
$5.7B |
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Index Dividend Yield |
6.73% |
(As of 9/30/2011) |
Industry |
Weights |
Mobile Telecommunications |
13.9% |
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Fixed Line Telecommunications |
13.5 |
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Electricity |
12.9 |
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Industrial Transportation |
9.8 |
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Construction & Materials |
9.5 |
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Personal Goods |
8.5 |
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Oil & Gas Producers |
5.6 |
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Real Estate Investment & Servi |
5.6 |
(As of 9/30/2011) |
Country |
Weights |
South Africa |
15.6% |
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China |
15.0 |
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Thailand |
14.0 |
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Brazil |
12.3 |
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Malaysia |
10.9 |
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Mexico |
9.4 |
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India |
5.6 |
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Philippines |
4.8 |
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Hungary |
4.8 |
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Czech Republic |
2.7 |
(As of 9/30/2011) |
Company (Ticker) |
Weights |
Kimberly-Clark de Mexico SAB de CV (KIMBERA MM) |
5.9%
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Telecomunicacoes de Sao Paulo SA (VIV US) |
5.2 |
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Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co (PHI US) |
4.8 |
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Total Access Communication PCL (DTAC TB) |
4.8 |
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Magyar Telekom Telecommunications PLC (MTEL HB) |
4.8 |
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DiGi.Com Bhd (DIGI MK) |
4.3 |
Pretoria Portland Cement Co Ltd (PPC SJ) |
4.0 |
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Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA (EBR/B US) |
3.6 |
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Public Bank Bhd (PBK MK) |
3.6 |
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Telefonos de Mexico SAB de CV (TELMEXL MM) |
3.6 |
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(As of 9/30/2011) | 1-Month (%) |
3-Month (%) |
Year-to-Date (%) |
1-Year (%) |
Since Inception (%)** |
Total Returns (Net Asset Value) |
(11.64) |
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N/A | N/A | (14.07) |
Total Returns (Market Price) |
(13.54) | N/A | N/A | N/A | (15.10) |
Indxx Low Volatility Emerging Markets Dividend Index |
(10.88) | (13.06) | (9.18) | (5.14) | (13.27) |
Emerging Global Advisors (EGA) is an asset management company specializing in truer exposures to emerging market assets. Our precise focus allows investors to target emerging market investment opportunities and avoid or minimize portfolio overlap.
Our current product offering is designed to enable investors to participate in the ownership of businesses within emerging markets, which have unique risks and opportunities. Thus, we are committed to selecting or helping develop investment exposures that allow more accurate targeting of important emerging market opportunities. We look to bring first-to-market product innovations that are driven by research and insights from our understanding of the factors that are turning emerging markets into more developed markets. It is this approach that facilitates building more useful portfolio construction tools.
This sort of thought process combined with traditional financial analytics underpins the development of our product offering.
Marten Hoekstra joined Emerging Global Advisors in 2011. He was most recently CEO of UBS Wealth Management Americas and a member of the Group Executive Board. He worked 26 years at UBS, including a predecessor firm, PaineWebber. After 2001, he held various management roles in Zurich and the United States on the executive committee of the firm's Global Wealth Management & Business Banking unit, including Deputy CEO. He was also Head of Market Strategy and Development for UBS' wealth management businesses outside of North America. He became a member of UBS' Group Managing Board in July 2002. He previously served as a Director of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. He is a graduate of the University of North Dakota and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Marten S. Hoekstra is a registered representative of ALPS Distributors, Inc.
Robert Holderith founded Emerging Global Shares in September 2008. He previously held several executive positions at ProFund Advisors, lastly as Managing Director, Institutional Sales and Investment Analytics serving on the company's ETF Steering, Product Development, Strategic and Tactical Distribution, and Product Launch teams. Earlier, he spent nine years at UBS, where he led a variety of product, asset management, and senior sales initiatives. As a senior member of UBS' wealth management team, he helped develop the firm's first ETF models and an advisory ETF Portfolio Management platform. He has been using ETF products, modeling ETF portfolios, and has developed numerous ETF-based business models since 2000.
Robert C. Holderith is a registered representative of ALPS Distributors, Inc.
Richard Kang has served as Chief Investment Officer and Director of Research since the company's founding in 2008. Previously, he was CIO of ETFx Indexes LLC, a boutique index provider focused on alternative investments (alternative asset classes, alternative indexing methodologies, alternative themes and strategies) that he helped found. Earlier, he was CIO at Quadrexx Asset Management, a start up fund-of-hedge-funds, and co-founded Meridian Global Investors, an investment counseling firm managing globally diversified portfolios including both traditional and alternative asset classes primarily through the use of passive instruments. He has consulted for various asset allocators as well as fund managers in the areas of hedge funds and ETFs, and is a frequent speaker at industry events.
Richard C. Kang is a registered representative of ALPS Distributors, Inc.
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Low Volatility Emerging Markets Dividend ETF