NZ:EMG ETF Price & Analysis

NZ:EMG — Smart Emerging Markets ESG ETF offers broad, total-market exposure to emerging-market equities while incorporating ESG screens. The fund seeks to track the MSCI Emerging Markets Investable Market Index (IMI) ESG Screened, a large‑, mid‑ and small‑cap benchmark that applies MSCI’s ESG criteria and negative screens to the standard EM universe to exclude companies that fail ESG thresholds or are engaged in controversial business activities. As a Size & Style: Total Market vehicle in a Broad‑based niche, NZ:EMG is designed as a core emerging‑markets equity holding for investors who want comprehensive country and sector diversification across the EM opportunity set, but with an ESG‑conscious investable universe. Because it follows a rules‑based index, the ETF delivers passive, market‑weighted exposure to thousands of EM stocks subject to the index’s ESG exclusions and methodology, which can alter sector and country weightings relative to a traditional EM benchmark. That tradeoff—broad, diversified EM coverage with an ESG screen—makes NZ:EMG suitable for investors seeking to combine core EM equity allocation with sustainability considerations, while accepting that screening may cause performance divergence versus non‑ESG EM benchmarks. The fund’s objective is to replicate the index return before fees, taxes and expenses.