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iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) is an exchange-traded fund that seeks to track the performance of equities in emerging markets worldwide. The ETF follows the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. The fund is managed by BlackRock and trades under the ticker EEM on NYSE Arca.
Classified as an international equity ETF, EEM aims to reflect, before fees and expenses, the performance of the securities included in its benchmark index. The fund employs a passive management strategy, maintaining a portfolio designed to replicate the composition and weighting of the tracked index.
The MSCI Emerging Markets Index is weighted by free-float-adjusted market capitalization, assigning greater weight to companies with larger market value within each country. The index undergoes periodic reviews that may result in additions, removals, and rebalancing, which are reflected in the ETF’s holdings.
Diversification and sector exposure
EEM provides broad exposure to emerging markets, bringing together companies from different regions and economic sectors, including:
Information technology.
Financials.
Consumer discretionary.
Energy.
Materials.
This structure reflects the regional and sector composition of the emerging markets represented in the index.
Structure and costs
EEM shares are traded on the secondary market. Creation and redemption of shares are carried out by authorized participants, a mechanism designed to help keep the ETF’s market price aligned with its net asset value (NAV).
The fund charges a management fee and does not apply a performance fee. EEM makes periodic income distributions primarily derived from dividends paid by the underlying holdings.
History and evolution of the ETF
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF was launched in 2003, during a period of expansion in the ETF industry and growing global interest in emerging economies. Over time, EEM has maintained its index replication approach, adjusting its holdings in line with periodic index reviews.
Between 2020 and 2024, the ETF reflected developments in emerging markets amid global volatility, the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, shifts in international monetary policy, and changes in global supply chains.
