VWO Makes it Official Friday: No More South Korea

“The transition of the fund to the FTSE Emerging Index concludes the benchmark changes announced by Vanguard in October 2012 for 22 of its stock and balanced index funds. In January 2013, these funds began moving from MSCI indexes to indexes provided by FTSE and University of Chicago’s Center for Research in Security Prices,” according to the Vanguard statement.

Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF

ETF Trends editorial team contributed to this post. Tom Lydon’s clients own shares of EEM.