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About ISHARES CURRENCY HEDGED MSCI EMERGING MARKETS ETF
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Inception date
Sep 23, 2014
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Replication method
Physical
Distributes
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Tax on distributions
Qualified dividends
Primary advisor
BlackRock Fund Advisors
Distributor
BlackRock Investments LLC
HEEM offers currency-hedged exposure to a broad basket of emerging-market stocks. The fund piggybacks on iShares' hugely popular EEM. In fact, HEEM simply holds the same stocks as EEM and overlays that position with currency contracts to hedge out its currency exposure to the US dollar. The index is 100% hedged to US dollars by selling each foreign currency forward at the one-month forward weight, while the amount is kept constant during the period. Outside of the currency-hedge, HEEM's exposure is vanilla. It's worth noting that this fund defines Korea as an emerging market, so that country is represented in this portfolio. The index is rebalanced monthly on the last trading day, to take into account the effect of the rolling one-month forward contracts.
Classification
What's in the fund
Exposure type
ETF
Stock breakdown by region
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