- What does TEMD invest in?
- The fund aims to achieve an overall return by combining income generated from interest payments with the potential for capital appreciation. Under typical market conditions, it dedicates at least 80% of its net assets to debt instruments from emerging markets, as well as derivatives and other financial tools designed to provide similar economic characteristics and investment exposure to such emerging market debt securities.
- What is the expense ratio of TEMD?
- Templeton Emerging Markets Debt ETF (TEMD) charges an expense ratio of 0.45%. This is the annual fee deducted from fund assets to cover management and operations.
- What is TEMD's dividend yield?
- TEMD's trailing-twelve-month yield is 3.76%, calculated from the sum of dividends over the past year divided by the current price.
- What is the duration of TEMD?
- Effective duration measures TEMD's sensitivity to interest-rate changes — a duration of 6 means a 1% rate move shifts NAV by roughly 6% in the opposite direction. TEMD's current duration is published on the fund's factsheet on the issuer's website.
- What is the credit quality of TEMD?
- TEMD's credit quality breakdown — the share of holdings rated AAA through CCC and below — is published on the fund's factsheet. Higher-quality (investment-grade) funds yield less but carry less default risk than high-yield / junk bond funds.
- What is the yield to maturity of TEMD?
- Yield to maturity (YTM) is the total return you'd earn from TEMD if every bond in the portfolio is held to maturity at the current price. TEMD's YTM is published on the fund's factsheet on the issuer's website — it differs from the trailing-12-month yield because YTM reflects current bond prices rather than historical income paid.
