Emerging-Market ETFs Are Game-Changers

Broad-based funds have contributed greatly to investors' poor performance in this bear market, as most big indexes have grown disproportionately large with financial holdings, which have become the worst place to be. (Tech stocks were the culprit in the previous bear market.)

Just as people learned about the importance of emerging-market exposure at the beginning of this decade, more will want to invest in individual sectors outside the developed world.

Investors who build portfolios sector by sector with ETFs just got new tools from Emerging Global Shares. EGS Emerging Markets Energy Fund(EEO Quote) and EGS Emerging Markets Metals & Mining Fund(EMT Quote) are the first to be sold, with 10 others coming soon. ...