Investing in emerging markets can help diversify a portfolio, but this can be difficult, given the challenge of researching, buying, and selling stocks that aren’t listed in Canada. Exchange-traded funds offer an easy way to gain exposure to emerging markets while minimizing those difficulties.
We’ve screened the 25 ETFs in Morningstar’s Canadian emerging markets equity category for those with Bronze, Silver, or Gold Morningstar Medalist Ratings, meaning our analysts expect them to outperform their categories’ index or median over the long term. We also excluded funds with less than C$100 million in assets. The four funds that made the cut are all index funds, with three tracking variants of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.
For this story, we highlight the best four emerging market stock ETFs as evaluated by Morningstar analysts:
- BMO MSCI Emerging Markets ETF ZEM
- Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets All Cap Index ETF VEE
- iShares Core…


