Capture Upside while Preventing Downside with the DBEM ETF January 11, 2021 A risk-on sentiment is permeating into the capital markets again. Investors can partake in riskier assets like emerging markets more safely with ETFs with a hedging component like the DBEM seeks investment results that correspond generally to the performance of the MSCI EM US Dollar Hedged Index. The fund, using a “passive” or indexing investment approach, seeks investment results that correspond generally to the performance, before fees and expenses, of the underlying index, which is designed to track emerging market performance while mitigating exposure to fluctuations between the value of the U.S. dollar and the currencies of the countries included in the underlying index.