Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF (FRDM)
| Assets | $2.94B |
| Expense Ratio | 0.49% |
| PE Ratio | 17.68 |
| Shares Out | 46.95M |
| Dividend (ttm) | $1.16 |
| Dividend Yield | 1.85% |
| Ex-Dividend Date | Dec 23, 2025 |
| Payout Ratio | 32.66% |
| 1-Year Return | +76.36% |
| Volume | 469,351 |
| Open | 62.34 |
| Previous Close | 63.00 |
| Day's Range | 62.22 - 62.95 |
| 52-Week Low | 30.68 |
| 52-Week High | 63.76 |
| Beta | 0.90 |
| Holdings | 133 |
| Inception Date | May 23, 2019 |
About FRDM
Fund Home PageThe Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF (FRDM) is an exchange-traded fund that mostly invests in total market equity. The fund selects and weights exposure to emerging market equities based on personal and economic freedom metrics. FRDM was launched on May 23, 2019 and is issued by Freedom.
Top 10 Holdings
46.56% of assets| Name | Symbol | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 005930 | 9.81% |
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | TSM | 8.06% |
| SK hynix Inc. | 000660 | 5.83% |
| LATAM Airlines Group S.A. | LTM | 4.34% |
| Vale S.A. | VALE3 | 3.51% |
| Banco de Chile | CHILE | 3.30% |
| Bank Polska Kasa Opieki S.A. | PEO | 3.29% |
| Falabella S.A. | FALABELLA | 2.88% |
| MediaTek Inc. | 2454 | 2.79% |
| Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. | 2317 | 2.74% |
Dividends
| Ex-Dividend | Amount | Pay Date |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 2025 | $0.32918 | Dec 26, 2025 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | $0.21508 | Sep 30, 2025 |
| Jun 27, 2025 | $0.34617 | Jun 30, 2025 |
| Mar 28, 2025 | $0.27048 | Apr 1, 2025 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | $0.21255 | Dec 31, 2024 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | $0.17131 | Sep 30, 2024 |
News
FRDM: Are Emerging Market Equities Driving The U.S. Market?
The Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF leverages 'freedom-weighting' to select and allocate equities from 24 emerging market countries. FRDM excludes state-owned enterprises (over 20% state ownership) a...
Emerging Markets: The Next Phase In Market-Broadening
At the same time developed markets have been generating policy and macro noise, emerging markets have been quietly outperforming. The inextricable relationship between the direction of U.S. monetary p...
How emerging-markets stocks can keep trouncing the S&P 500
Emerging-market stocks have broadly crushed the U.S. equities market this year, in one of the biggest market surprises of 2025.
The Big Squeeze: EM Mega Caps Up, Breadth Down
Emerging markets equity returns have been driven by extreme mega-cap concentration, with index breadth collapsing to historic lows and masking weakness across much of the opportunity set. This concent...
Let Freedom Ring: The Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF
The Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF offers exposure to democratic, capitalist emerging markets, avoiding autocratic regimes. FRDM's portfolio features world-class companies, like Samsung Electronics,...
FRDM: Capturing New Trends In Emerging Markets
Freedom ETFs' FRDM ETF targets emerging markets with high economic freedom, offering a differentiated approach to EM investing. FRDM invests in countries with compelling valuations and strong growth p...
FRDM: Emerging Market Alpha, Thanks To Some Country Wagers
FRDM ETF has outperformed major emerging market benchmarks due to strategic overweights in Poland, Chile, Korea, and tech, while avoiding China and India. The fund's low valuation (12.4x earnings, PEG...
FRDM: The Best Emerging Market ETF You're Not Holding
FRDM ETF offers unique diversification by focusing on emerging markets ranked by freedom, reducing political risks and lowering correlation with US markets. The fund excludes authoritarian regimes lik...
FRDM: Investing In The Free World (No BRICS, Please)
The Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF uses a "freedom-weighted" strategy to outperform traditional market-weighted EM funds by excluding regimes like China and Russia. FRDM's methodology filters 24 eme...
This ETF provider thinks it's time to rethink investing in China
Investors may want to reduce their exposure to the world's largest emerging market.
How overseas stocks can hedge your portfolio from potential tariffs
Perth Tolle, Life + Liberty Indexes founder and CEO, sits down with CNBC's Bob Pisani to discuss how Tolle's firm uses “freedom” metrics to expose investors to international investing and the protecti...
South Korea ETFs struggle despite country showing ‘resiliency' after martial law
It's been a head-spinning week for ETF investors monitoring geopolitical risks to stocks in their portfolios.
FRDM: Emerging Markets ETF Excluding China And India
Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF focuses on investing in about 100 companies from emerging markets based on a Freedom Score. The FRDM ETF is concentrated in large cap companies, with heavy exposure to...
Emerging Markets Growth Remains Solid Amid Intensifying Inflationary Pressures
Emerging markets continued to expand at a solid pace midway into the first quarter of 2024, supported by broad-based expansion across both manufacturing and service sectors.
FRDM: The Emerging Market Alpha Is In Liberty
The Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF focuses on investing in emerging markets that score well on personal and economic freedoms. The FRDM ETF's portfolio is heavily invested in Taiwan, South Korea, an...
FRDM ETF: Freedom As An Alternative EM Investing Strategy
The Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF focuses on investing in countries that protect civil liberties and economic freedoms. The fund's exclusion of China highlights its relatively unique strategy that ...
FRDM: Low-Yielding EM ETF Focusing On Right Sectors In Taiwan And South Korea
Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF invests in emerging markets of Taiwan, South Korea, and Chile. Not surprisingly, it is highly focused on metals, technology, and financial sectors. My understanding is...
Emerging Market Funds That Exclude China Are Beating the Index
Ex-China funds are attracting assets as geopolitical tensions with the U.S. grab headlines and China underperforms other emerging market countries.
China ETFs fall after services sector data, deepening losses this year as U.S. stocks, emerging-markets funds rise in 2023
Exchange-traded funds that invest in Chinese stocks were trading down Wednesday afternoon, deepening the ETFs' losses this year after data showed China's services sector cooled in June and as investor...
Emerging Markets Funds See Top 10 Weekly Outflow On Record
Emerging Markets Funds are made up of funds that seek long-term capital appreciation. Nigeria and Emerging Markets Europe have been the two areas that have seen the highest year-to-date and May return...
FRDM: Emerging Markets Are Hated So Much It May Be Time To Buy
FRDM: Emerging Markets Are Hated So Much It May Be Time To Buy
Emerging Markets Insights: Emerging Market Banks Are Resilient
The liquidity crisis impacting selected developed market banks has unnerved emerging market investors. Markets have recovered from the turmoil following the liquidity crisis impacting some banks in th...
Partake In The FRDM To Outperform In Emerging Markets
Emerging markets are likely to outperform the benchmarks in the long term; however, not all emerging markets are equal. Evidence suggests that emerging markets in politically liberal regimes experienc...