SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As artificial intelligence continues to transform industries and economies around the world, China is rapidly developing one of the largest and most comprehensive AI ecosystems outside the United States.
EMXETF, an ETF brand by EMQQ Global focused on AI opportunities across emerging markets, today announced the launch of the China AI ETF (NASDAQ: AICH), an actively managed ETF designed to provide focused exposure to companies shaping China’s rapidly evolving AI landscape.
While much of the global investment attention around AI has centered on U.S. technology companies, China has been building a broad domestic ecosystem spanning semiconductors, GPUs, memory, optical networking, AI models, robotics, applications and the infrastructure needed to support them.
“We believe investors are increasingly looking for ways to diversify their AI exposure beyond the largest U.S. technology companies,” said Kevin T. Carter, Founder + CIO of EMQQ Global and EMXETF. “China represents a significant and rapidly evolving AI market, with companies operating across virtually every layer of the ecosystem. AICH provides a focused way to participate in that growth.”
The emergence of Chinese AI models such as DeepSeek, Z.ai and MiniMax has brought increased global attention to the depth and pace of innovation taking place across the country's technology sector. The China AI Tigers LLM ETF (NASDAQ: TGRZ) was launched to capture the model layer. AICH seeks to provide investors with exposure to this broader development rather than concentrating solely on the better-known Chinese technology companies.
AICH is designed to give investors more direct access to these emerging companies and the technologies they are developing, from the infrastructure powering AI systems to the models, machines, and applications being built on top of them.
China’s investment in artificial intelligence is driving development across virtually every layer of the technology stack. Many companies contributing to this growth have historically had limited representation in broad global technology and China-focused ETFs.
As AI adoption continues to expand globally, AICH offers investors a differentiated way to access the companies helping shape China’s next generation of technology—from the chips and infrastructure underneath AI to the models, robotics and applications bringing it to life.
The fund is part of the EMXETF family of ETFs focused on targeted artificial intelligence opportunities in Emerging Markets.
About EMXETF
EMXETF was created to develop exchange-traded funds focused on artificial intelligence opportunities in Emerging Markets. EMXETF seeks to provide investors with targeted exposure to companies participating in the next generation of Emerging Markets innovation. EMXETF is a division of EMQQ Global, a San Francisco based investment manager focused on Emerging Markets Technology opportunities.
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Investing involves risk. Loss of principal is possible.
Equity Market Risk. Common stocks are generally exposed to greater risk than other types of securities, such as preferred stock and debt obligations, because common stockholders generally have inferior rights to receive payment from specific issuers. The equity securities held in the Fund’s portfolio may experience sudden, unpredictable drops in value or long periods of decline in value.
Artificial Intelligence Risk. Issuers engaged in artificial intelligence typically have high research and capital expenditures and, as a result, their profitability can vary widely, if they are profitable at all. The space in which they are engaged is highly competitive and issuers’ products and services may become obsolete very quickly. These companies are heavily dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected by loss or impairment of those rights. The issuers are also subject to legal, regulatory and political changes that may have a large impact on their profitability.
Foreign Securities Risk. Investments in non-U.S. securities involve risks that may not be present with investments in U.S. securities. For example, investments in non-U.S. securities may be subject to risk of loss due to foreign currency fluctuations or to political or economic instability. There may be less information publicly available about a non-U.S. issuer than a U.S. issuer. Non-U.S. issuers may be subject to different accounting, auditing, financial reporting and investor protection standards than U.S. issuers. Changes to the financial condition or credit rating of foreign issuers may also adversely affect the value of the Fund’s securities.
China Investing Risks. The Chinese economy is generally considered an emerging market and can be significantly affected by economic and political conditions and policy in China and surrounding Asian countries. A relatively small number of Chinese companies represent a large portion of China’s total market and thus may be more sensitive to adverse political or economic circumstances and market movements. The economy of China differs, often unfavorably, from the U.S. economy in such respects as structure, general development, government involvement, wealth distribution, rate of inflation, growth rate, allocation of resources and capital reinvestment, among others.
Derivatives Risk. Derivatives are financial instruments that derive value from the underlying reference asset or assets, such as stocks, bonds, or funds (including ETFs), interest rates or indexes. The Fund’s investments in derivatives may pose risks in addition to, and greater than, those associated with directly investing in securities or other ordinary investments, including risk related to the market, imperfect correlation with underlying investments or the Fund’s other portfolio holdings, higher price volatility, lack of availability, counterparty risk, liquidity, valuation and legal restrictions.
Swap Agreements. The use of swap transactions is a highly specialized activity, which involves investment techniques and risks different from those associated with ordinary portfolio securities transactions. Whether the Fund will be successful in using swap agreements to achieve its investment goal depends on the ability of the Adviser to structure such swap agreements in accordance with the Fund’s investment objective and to identify counterparties for those swap agreements.
Counterparty Risk. The Fund is subject to counterparty risk by virtue of its investments in derivatives which exposes the Fund to the risk that the counterparty will not fulfill its obligation to the Fund.
Geographic Investment Risk. To the extent the Fund invests a significant portion of its assets in the securities of companies of a single country or region, it is more likely to be impacted by events or conditions affecting that country or region.
New Fund Risk. The Fund is a recently organized management investment company with no operating history. As a result, prospective investors do not have a track record or history on which to base their investment decisions.
Non-Diversification Risk. Because the Fund is “non-diversified,” it may invest a greater percentage of its assets in the securities of a single issuer or a smaller number of issuers than if it was a diversified fund. As a result, a decline in the value of an investment in a single issuer or a smaller number of issuers could cause the Fund’s overall value to decline to a greater degree than if the Fund held a more diversified portfolio.
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