First Trust RiverFront Dynamic Emerging Markets ETF
RFEM NASDAQ
First Trust RiverFront Dynamic Emerging Markets ETF is actively-managed to select in emerging market stocks using multiple factors with manager discretion to hedge currency exposure up to 100% of the portfolio.
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- Fund size
- 64.1M as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.95% per year
- Dividend yield
- 1.82% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 19.6% Average Risk
- Beta
- 0.77 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 73.87100.10
How RFEM has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against its benchmark.
Return by period
Price · to Sep 11Total return vs benchmark
Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 IndexOver 1 year, RFEM returned +36.2% with dividends reinvested — −8.2 pts behind its benchmark.
How bumpy is the ride?
Return only means something next to the risk taken to earn it. Volatility, drawdowns and market sensitivity over 1 year.
Volatility
Annualized · 1YA typical year sees the price swing about ±20% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −11.6% on Mar 30, 2026 — 33 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 17% of the time.
Risk vs reward
1YOver 1 year, RFEM delivered less return with more risk than its benchmark.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.77 means RFEM has moved less than the market.
Trend & momentum
Where the price sits against its moving averages, and how stretched the recent move is.
Price vs moving averages
Uptrend- 12-day average98.99 +0.6%
- 26-day average97.80 +1.8%
- 50-day average96.16 +3.6%
- 200-day average88.34 +12.8%
The price is above 4 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is above the 200-day, a sign of a rising longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
NeutralRSI compares recent gains with recent losses on a 0–100 scale. Above 70 a move is often considered stretched, below 30 washed out.
Technical indicators describe past prices. They are not a forecast.
Inside the fund
Emerging Markets · Factors — tracking the Not Applicable.
- Assets under management64.1MUSD
- Expense ratio0.95%per year
- Holdings157
- Risk score6.4Medium
Launched June 2016. Fund data as of Feb 28, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 18 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 1.82
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Jun 25, 2026
Last 12 months
1.82 USD / shareWhere RFEM shows up
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About First Trust RiverFront Dynamic Emerging Markets ETF
First Trust RiverFront Dynamic Emerging Markets ETF is actively-managed to select in emerging market stocks using multiple factors with manager discretion to hedge currency exposure up to 100% of the portfolio.
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 157 holdings
- Ticker
- RFEM
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- ISIN
- US33739P7078
- CUSIP
- 33739P707
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Emerging Markets
- Industry
- Factors
- Benchmark
- Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Sep 11, 2026
Dataas of Feb 28, 2020
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