Key stats
About First Trust Emerging Markets AlphaDEX Fund
Expense ratio
0.80%
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Inception date
Apr 18, 2011
FEM does not promise broad exposure to emerging markets, trying instead to build a portfolio of stocks positioned to outperform. The fund uses a selection methodology focused on growth and value factors to screen firms by scoring each security twice by both growth and value characteristics, assigning whatever score is highest as the stock's style score. It then takes the 150 top-scoring stocks and breaks them into quintiles, giving higher-scoring quintiles greater weight in the index. The index is rebalanced and reconstituted semi-annually.
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Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Finance
Energy Minerals
Transportation
Stocks98.77%
Finance22.62%
Energy Minerals15.23%
Transportation11.16%
Retail Trade7.40%
Consumer Durables6.56%
Non-Energy Minerals5.28%
Utilities5.15%
Electronic Technology4.96%
Producer Manufacturing4.68%
Industrial Services3.14%
Consumer Services2.88%
Communications2.78%
Distribution Services1.96%
Health Technology1.59%
Process Industries1.13%
Technology Services0.93%
Consumer Non-Durables0.91%
Health Services0.42%
Bonds, Cash & Other1.23%
UNIT1.06%
Cash0.17%
Miscellaneous−0.00%
Stock breakdown by region
Asia67.29%
Europe13.47%
Latin America11.05%
Africa4.13%
North America4.06%
Middle East0.00%
Oceania0.00%
Top 10 holdings
Dividends
Dividend payout history