SCHE: Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF

What does SCHE hold?#

This fund owns shares of about 2,100 companies in emerging markets. These are countries whose economies are still growing. Prices there can rise and fall a lot, and their money can change in value.

It tracks the FTSE Emerging Index. It had 2,137 holdings as of February 28, 2026, according to Schwab.

What is the SCHE expense ratio?#

SCHE charges 0.06% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.06% fee comes to about $6 a year.

You never get a bill for it. The fund takes the fee out of its own value a little each day.

How has SCHE done since 2010?#

From January 2010 to October 2026, SCHE returned about 4.6% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $21,376 at the end, with every dividend reinvested.

Prices through October 16, 2026. Figures use daily closing prices adjusted for splits, with dividends reinvested. They do not include taxes or the cost of buying and selling. Past results do not tell you what will happen next.

SCHE returns by year#

What was SCHE’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. SCHE’s worst fall was −36.2%, from January 26, 2018 to March 23, 2020. It got back to that high on November 9, 2020.

The chart shows how far below its last high the fund was on each day. Big drops are normal for some funds. They matter because selling during a drop locks in the loss.

Which Tactfolio strategies hold SCHE?#

No classic strategy holds SCHE yet. You can add it to your own rules in the builder and see how they would have done.

How does SCHE compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for SCHE:

• VWO: Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF, 0.06% a year
• IEMG: iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF, 0.09% a year
• EEM: iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF, 0.72% a year
• VEU: Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US ETF, 0.04% a year

See all 6 SCHE alternatives, compared on the same dates as SCHE.

Test SCHE in your own rules#

Tactfolio is a platform where you build rules-based investing strategies, backtest them on decades of real prices, share them, and run them automatically in your own Alpaca account. Open the builder, add SCHE, and see how a rule such as “hold it only above its 200-day average” would have done. Strategies run on daily prices and hold US stocks and ETFs only.

The details#

Prices come from Tactfolio’s stored daily prices for SCHE. Each close is adjusted for splits, and dividends are reinvested on the day the fund pays them out. CAGR is the steady yearly return that turns the starting value into the ending value. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns.

Fund facts come from Schwab. We checked them on October 17, 2026. Read what a backtest simulates and how to read drawdown and CAGR for more on these measures.