Emerging Global Advisors Celebrates One-Year
Anniversary
Leading Emerging Markets Sector ETF Provider Sees Asset Growth and Trading Volume Driven by
Investors Seeking Exposure to Developing Markets
May 25, 2010 01:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time
NEW YORK--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Emerging Global Advisors (EG Advisors), the first dedicated
emerging markets sector exchange-traded fund provider, is celebrating its one-year anniversary this week. The firm
has grown to more than $100 million in assets and currently manages six ETFs, with others scheduled for launch later
this year. Established May 22, 2009, EG Advisors provides ETFs tied to stock indices of developing economies
around the world.
“There’s been so much change in the emerging market investment landscape in such a short time that an asset class
that was once an afterthought is now the foremost consideration in many investment portfolios, institutional and retail
alike,” said Robert Holderith, president and CEO of Emerging Global Shares. “We believe market dislocations in the
US and other developed countries have led investors to the inescapable conclusion that alpha generation has to
come from emerging nations, many of whom are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on their infrastructure build-
outs.1 These are the markets in which we invest and we think this puts us on the front lines of what has shaped up to
be tremendously exciting investment opportunities.”
In addition to their ETF lineup, EG Advisors also remains committed to providing investors with cutting-edge
proprietary research and analysis. The company follows a focused, hands-on research approach, enabling it to gain
intelligence into newer, less-researched emerging markets. The research from EG Advisors helps provide investors
with an investment rationale for allocating emerging market exposures to their portfolios, and also offers market-by-
market analysis on risk, and political and economic perspectives, among others. EG Advisors’ research has also
helped