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ECOWPacer

Pacer Emerging Markets Cash Cows 100 ETF

$27.50+1.38% today
232952-WK

The index uses an objective, rules-based methodology to provide exposure to large and mid-capitalization companies in emerging markets with high free cash flow yields. Under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the fund's total assets (exclusive of collateral held from securities lending) will be invested in the component securities of the index and investments that have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of such component securities. It is non-diversified.

Price & daily flows
27.627.427.227.50DAILY NET FLOWJul 20Jul 29Aug 10Aug 19

SOURCE: MARKET TAPE & DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS · 1M SHOWN

The desk’s read

Flows are quiet — the past month netted out near zero, while the price has returned +11.6% so far this year. At 0.70% a year it is not the cheapest way in — SCHD runs the same ground at 0.06%.

COMPOSED FROM THE FUND’S OWN DAILY RECORDS · UPDATED WITH EACH REFRESH

$105Massets under management
0.70%expense ratio · $70 per $10,000 a year
net flow, trailing month
20Kavg daily volume, 30 days
112holdings · US-domiciled
2019listed May 1, 2019 · beta 0.77
Sector weights
Consumer Discretionary25.26%
Energy Minerals19.04%
Other17.98%
Technology15.52%
Information Technology14.95%
Industrials14.5%
Energy13.9%
Consumer Cyclical13.25%
Electronic Technology13%
Materials11.64%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Country weights
China25.74%
Taiwan (Province of China)19.94%
Taiwan16.92%
Brazil15.52%
Other13.18%
Mexico9.48%
Turkey6.97%
South Africa5.65%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week+0.6%
1 month+0.7%
3 months-0.1%
6 months+0.1%
YTD+11.6%
1 year
3 years

PRICE RETURN, DISTRIBUTIONS NOT REINVESTED

Net flows
1 week
1 month
3 months
YTD
1 year

CREATION/REDEMPTION DOLLARS, DAILY RECORDS

The risk read
11%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
15%realized volatility, 1 year
-8.3%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-3.9%where it sits vs. that peak today

VOLATILITY & DRAWDOWN FROM THE DAILY TAPE · CONCENTRATION FROM THE LATEST DISCLOSED BOOK

Options tape
calls today
puts today
put/call ratio
16Kshares traded
The case against ECOW

Due diligence cuts both ways. These funds sit on the same shelf and beat ECOW on at least one dimension that matters — the fee, the asset base, or where the money is going.

FundFeeAssetsFlow, 1MThe case
IDEV iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF0.04%$32.7B+$104M-66bp on fee · 310× the assets · +$104M in over the monthHead-to-head
IEFA iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF0.07%$195.3B+$631M-63bp on fee · 1855× the assets · +$631M in over the monthHead-to-head
IEMG iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF0.09%$160.6B+$1.9B-61bp on fee · 1526× the assets · +$1.9B in over the monthHead-to-head
IAGG iShares Core International Aggregate Bond ETF0.07%$11.4B+$739M-63bp on fee · 108× the assets · +$739M in over the monthHead-to-head
IXUS iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF0.07%$46.2B-63bp on fee · 439× the assetsHead-to-head
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