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About iShares MSCI UAE ETF
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Inception date
Apr 29, 2014
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Dividend treatment
Distributes
Distribution tax treatment
Ordinary income
Income tax type
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Primary advisor
BlackRock Fund Advisors
Distributor
BlackRock Investments LLC
UAE offers vanilla coverage to a truly emerging market. The United Arab Emirates has progressed from frontier market status to emerging market status in the eyes of indexing-giant MSCI, and iShares wasted little time in bringing UAE to market. UAEs basket, while market-like, is nonetheless concentrated in a handful of stocks. The fund tracks a capped version of the benchmark index, which is a free float-adjusted, market capitalization-weighted index with a capping methodology applied such that individual components do not exceed more than 25% of the Underlying Index weight, and those with a weight more than 5% do not cumulatively exceed 50% of the underlying index weight. This places an upper bound on concentration. All in all, UAE offers exposure to a hard-to-access corner of the equity market.
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Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Finance
Communications
Stocks99.84%
Finance63.89%
Communications11.88%
Transportation6.17%
Consumer Services4.78%
Industrial Services4.63%
Retail Trade3.18%
Non-Energy Minerals1.40%
Energy Minerals1.24%
Utilities0.71%
Technology Services0.71%
Producer Manufacturing0.59%
Process Industries0.58%
Commercial Services0.06%
Bonds, Cash & Other0.16%
Cash0.16%
Miscellaneous0.00%
Stock breakdown by region
Middle East100.00%
North America0.00%
Latin America0.00%
Europe0.00%
Asia0.00%
Africa0.00%
Oceania0.00%
Top 10 holdings
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Dividend payout history