Xtrackers MSCI EM Asia Swap UCITS ETF 1C (DBX2.DE) is an exchange-traded fund that seeks to track the performance of the MSCI Emerging Markets Asia Select Screened Index (NTR, USD), focusing on large and mid-cap companies from Asian emerging markets filtered by ESG criteria. The ETF employs a synthetic replication strategy via unfunded swaps with counterparties including Barclays Bank PLC, BNP Paribas, Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Deutsche Bank AG, Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE, Goldman Sachs International, HSBC Bank Plc, J.P. Morgan Securities plc, Merrill Lynch International, and Société Générale; it is an accumulating fund that reinvests dividends rather than distributing them. Launched on June 21, 2007, the ETF is domiciled in Luxembourg as a UCITS-compliant SICAV, managed by Xtrackers (a brand of DWS Investment S.A.), with assets under management of approximately EUR 301 million and a total expense ratio of 0.65% p.a.
The fund targets equity exposure to the broad Asia Pacific emerging markets segment, emphasizing social and environmental sustainability through screened constituents in countries such as China, India, South Korea, Taiwan, and others; it is currency unhedged in USD and listed on multiple European exchanges including Xetra (FRA: DBX2). Key operational features include long-only strategy risk, no securities lending, and administration by State Street Bank International GmbH, Luxembourg Branch, with investment advice from DWS Investments UK Limited.
In recent developments, MSCI Limited, the index administrator, implemented changes to the reference index methodology effective February 9, 2024, including enhancements to issuer-level capping and country deviation weighting schemes to refine ESG screening and performance alignment. The ETF continues to operate within the expanding Xtrackers ecosystem under DWS, part of Deutsche Börse Group, amid broader group activities such as the January 2024 acquisition of FundsDLT for fund tokenization advancements, though no direct product launches, funding rounds, or reorganizations specific to this ETF have been announced in the last 1-2 years.