

Investors on the lookout for potential break out candidates among ETFs can look for a few key factors in charts, global trends, and momentum. Trends, too, can guide investors and advisors to ETFs able to break out.

Issuers have mainly launched four types of ETFs in the past one year, namely -- thematic, smart-beta, international equity and managed risk/defined outcome.

Putnam Investments launched the Putnam Emerging Markets ex-China ETF (NYSE Arca: PEMX), which begins trading today on the New York Stock Exchange. The new actively managed, transparent ETF focuses on emerging market companies, excluding investments in China and Hong Kong.
SEC filings for PEMX aren't indexed yet — common for recently launched funds. Browse the issuer's filings on SEC EDGAR directly.