EGShares Beyond BRICs ETF Surpasses $250 Million in Assets

Emerging Global Advisors (EGA) today announced that its EGShares Beyond BRICs ETF (Ticker:BBRC), the first and largest emerging markets (EM) Beyond BRICs exchange-traded fund (ETF), has surpassed $250 million in assets after starting the year at $22 million. The fund’s performance has also been strong, up 11.26% year-to-date as of August 5, 20141, compared to 7.74% for the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.

BBRC, which launched in August 2012, transitioned to the FTSE Beyond BRICs Index in October 2013, when it added 25% exposure to frontier markets including Qatar, Oman, Kenya, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. The frontier market exposure is liquidity-ranked in order to address the liquidity challenges in frontier market equities. The remaining 75% of the fund provides exposure to 12 emerging markets, excluding the BRICs, South Korea and Taiwan.

Smaller and less mature emerging market and frontier markets, those that operate "Beyond the BRICs", have historically offered lower volatility and higher risk-adjusted returns than the whole of emerging markets.2 Investing in these markets also may offer portfolio diversification potential as correlations between the U.S. and BRIC equity markets have increased in recent years while those "Beyond BRIC" markets remain relatively less correlated – an important consideration for asset allocation among investors.

“In our view, smaller or less mature emerging and frontier markets represent important growth within emerging markets, and they have offered stronger growth and diversification characteristics than mainstream emerging market indices today,” said Marten Hoekstra, CEO of EGA. “The inflows BBRC has seen this year demonstrate developing investor interest in targeting smaller, less mature economies.”

“Frontier markets have unique characteristics that make them very attractive to investors,” said Nicholas Smithie, Chief Investment Strategist at EGA. “However, given liquidity challenges in the market, investors face a trade-off between a diversified frontier markets portfolio and daily liquidity. A liquidity-based strategy can provide investors with frontier exposure in a daily-traded vehicle." Through BBRC’s liquidity ranking and market capitalization weighting of its 25% frontier markets exposure, the fund may offer a solution to these challenges.

For more information on BBRC, please visit egshares.com/BBRC.

Performance History (As of 6/30/14)

*Reflects Indxx Beyond BRICs Index through October 25, 2013; FTSE Beyond BRICs Net of Tax Index USD Index thereafter.

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About Emerging Global Advisors (EGA)

Emerging Global Advisors (EGA) is an emerging markets asset manager that employs a disciplined, rules-based process rooted in research and portfolio strategy designed to generate alpha in emerging and frontier markets. EGA is the investment advisor to the EGShares exchange-traded funds. For more information, please visit emergingglobaladvisors.com.

Footnote

1 Based on total returns of BBRC net asset value.

2 Source: MSCI, Morningstar data as of June 30, 2014.

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