In fact, all of the funds mentioned above have registered negative return numbers in the trailing one year period with the exception of EWW, which as we mentioned yesterday, is among one of the better performers across all equities during this time frame.

Currently there are twenty six ETFs classified in the “Latin America” category, with many of these funds having debuted within the past five years, demonstrating the clear innovation that is occurring in this segment of the ETF marketplace.

Not surprisingly, at the moment the bulk of the assets under management reside with the most tenured funds in the space, including EWZ (iShares MSCI Brazil, Expense Ratio 0.60%), EWW (iShares MSCI Mexico, Expense Ratio 0.52%), and ILF (iShares S&P Latin America 40, Expense Ratio 0.50%), which collectively have accumulated greater than $12 billion in AUM.

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