It has managed to outperform the MSCI Emerging Markets index by about 100 basis points, however.
The ETF is down 3.25% this year, back to underperforming the MSCI Emerging Markets index.
Russia has outperformed the MSCI Emerging Markets index for the week starting March 14.
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The iShares MSCI Brazil (EWZ) exchange traded fund is actually outperforming the MSCI Emerging Markets index.
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This ETF holds publicly traded securities in emerging markets, as represented by the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.
Brazil accounts for 12.6 percent of the MSCI Emerging Markets index, so most investors are underweight.
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The fund is up 13 percent year to date, closely in line with the MSCI Emerging Markets index.
The gap between the MSCI Frontier Markets index and the MSCI Emerging Markets index remains near historic lows.
Russia, still the wild East of the big four, has underperformed the MSCI Emerging Markets index all year.
That pushed the MSCI Emerging Markets index up around 20% in the first quarter before it started selling off.
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In the year to date, the MSCI Emerging Markets index has risen more than 20% in dollar terms.
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The MSCI Emerging Markets index is down 1.62% year-to-date, erasing January gains.
However, over the last five days, the MSCI Emerging Markets index has declined.
The ETF is down over 8% year-to-date, making China an underperformer of the MSCI Emerging Markets index yet again.
Since Jan. 1, the MSCI Frontier Markets index has risen 7%, while the MSCI Emerging Markets index has fallen 1%.
The MSCI Brazil index is down 8.67 percent this year while the MSCI Emerging Markets index is up 13.6 percent.
The iShares FTSE China ( FXI) exchange traded fund is up 3.39 percent year-to-date, outperforming the MSCI Emerging Markets index.
After beating the MSCI Emerging Markets Index for the past six months, China equity outperformance will unlikely last the year.
Their average annual TSR of 17.3 percent is nearly 3 times greater than that of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.
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The Market Vectors Russia (RSX) has been outperforming its peers in the MSCI Emerging Markets index over the last four weeks.
Two sector ETFs are the MSCI Emerging Markets Financials Sector Index Fund and the MSCI Emerging Markets Materials Sector Index Fund.
The U.S. equity market has done almost as good as the wilder and higher beta stocks in the MSCI Emerging Markets index.
Since July, emerging-market shares have been a disaster, falling 50%, as measured by the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, worse than U.S. stocks.
Since inception, Total Emerging Markets has outperformed the MSCI Emerging Markets (EEM) exchange traded fund, which closely mirrors the MSCI Emerging Markets index.
Nevertheless, China equities are still beating the MSCI Emerging Markets index, if measured by the FTSE China Xinhua 25 (FXI) exchange traded fund.
The ETF is down 2.35 percent year to date, while the MSCI Emerging Markets index is up 3.7 percent over the same period.
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By comparison, the MSCI Emerging Markets index, which has taken it on the chin over the last two years, is down just 4.8%.
The popularly traded iShares MSCI Brazil (EWZ) exchange traded fund is down 4.3% year-to-date while the MSCI Emerging Markets index is up 3.39%.
As measured by the equity markets, Russia is the second best performing BRIC, but is still underperforming the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.
The MSCI Emerging Markets Index is only about a half of a standard deviation from its mean over the same time frame.
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