- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Asset Management - Global
- Address
- 120 East Liberty Drive, Suite 400 Wheaton IL United States of America 60187
- IPO Date
- Oct 3, 2023
- Business
- First Trust Emerging Markets Human Flourishing ETF (FTHF) is an exchange-traded fund that seeks investment results tracking the performance, before fees and expenses, of the Emerging Markets Human Flourishing Index, a market cap-weighted index comprising large- and mid-sized emerging market companies screened for their promotion of human flourishing based on human rights beliefs and fundamental selection criteria. The fund invests primarily in equity securities of emerging market issuers across sectors including financial services, technology, materials, consumer discretionary, and utilities; top holdings as of recent data include Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd, SK Hynix Inc, Naspers Ltd, and Itau Unibanco Holding SA, with significant geographic exposure to South Korea, South Africa, Taiwan, Brazil, and Mexico. FTHF trades on the NYSE Arca exchange under the ticker FTHF, with shares created and redeemed through authorized participants in large units.
Sponsored and advised by First Trust Advisors L.P., an affiliate of First Trust Portfolios L.P., the fund benefits from a licensing agreement with Oak City Consulting, LLC, which owns, develops, and sponsors the underlying index; First Trust Advisors L.P., founded in 1991 and headquartered in Wheaton, Illinois, serves individual investors, financial advisors, and institutions through a broad range of ETFs, unit investment trusts, and managed account solutions. The ETF launched on October 27, 2023, and operates as a non-diversified open-ended fund with an expense ratio of 0.75%, approximately 107 constituents, and assets under management around $60 million as of mid-2025 data.
In recent developments, First Trust Advisors L.P. announced distributions for exchange-traded funds including FTHF in June 2025, reflecting ongoing portfolio management and shareholder returns; the firm filed a prospectus supplement for FTHF-related updates in February 2025, and the fund maintained steady operations amid broader ETF industry growth, with no reported acquisitions, partnerships, or major strategic shifts specific to FTHF in 2024-2025, though First Trust continues expanding its thematic ETF offerings.