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- iShares Floats Long Awaited Emerging Market Infrastructure Fund
- iShares' long awaited emerging market infrastructure fund began trading last Friday. The iShares S&P Emerging Markets Infrastructure Index Fund EMIF invests in infrastructure operators in the energy, transportation, and utlity sectors across major emerging markets, with a heavy weighting toward China and Latin America. The EMIF may seem to...
- External links 2009-06-21
- SPDR vs. iShares: Battle of the BRIC ETFs
- Tom Schumacher submits: With the rapidly growing ETF product list, we thought it appropriate to differentiate like-products. Our attempt is to analyze funds among popular categories and compare their strengths and weaknesses against each other. Today's study: SPDR S&P BRIC 40 ETF BIK vs. iShares MSCI BRIC Index Fund BKF....
- External links 2009-06-16
- Gain Broad Exposure with iShares All Country Asia ETF
- Alan Young submits: AAXJ is the iShares All Country Asia ex-Japan fund. It includes the largest companies in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan (total 56%), Korea (18%), India, Singapore, and a smattering of smaller markets. Since the fund is less than a year old, I went to the MSCI site to...
- External links 2009-06-07
- 6 Sectors Push Singapore's ETF Along
- Tom Lydon ETF Trends submits: Singapore’s markets and exchange traded fund [ETF] are closely tied to the recovery of the U.S. markets, but Singapore is stepping up its manufacturing industry to hasten growth. The Singapore ambassador to the U.S. claims that the recovery from the economic slump will...
- External links 2009-07-15
- Another Decoupling Play: SPDR S&P Emerging Markets Small Cap ETF
- Tom Lydon ETF Trends submits: ETF Spotlight on SPDR S&P Emerging Markets Small Cap EWX, part of a recurring series. Assets: $25.4 million Holdings: This fund is a market-cap weighted index that represents the small-cap segment of emerging countries in the BMI Global Equity Index. Its top holdings...
- External links 2009-07-16
- iShares Debuts New Mexico Bond ETFs
- Michael Johnston submits: It looks like iShares can add another “first” to its long list of industry accomplishments: the fund family will reportedly offer the first exchange-traded funds that track Mexican government debt indexes. According to a prospectus filed with the Mexican stock exchange, iShares will offer five ETFs, including...
- External links 2009-07-17
- Will Market Vectors' Africa ETF Continue to Outperform?
- Ira Mack submits: Market Vector's Africa ETF AFK has emerged from behind the dark clouds of the “Credit Crisis” storm which plagued the entire globe. Interestingly, this fund has outperformed the SPX index YTD. After digging into the numbers a bit, I discovered that AFK compared to the SPX...
- External links 2009-05-11
- Why Market Vectors' Russia ETF Isn't Overbought
- A stock that doubles in three months typically isn't considered cheap. But on a fundamental basis, Van Eck's Market Vectors Russia RSX is still a bargain for the long term investor, despite its 101% return since February. The Russian market tanked last year as the global recession hit Russia's growth...
- External links 2009-06-03
- What ASEAN Summit May Mean for Asia?s ETFs
- Tom Lydon ETF Trends submits: Asian countries are seeking to form a single entity that would free up trade and this could remove economic impediments placed upon Asian markets, along with subsequent ETFs. In South Korea, the Korea-ASEAN Special Summit will hopefully increase diplomatic ties with ASEAN, a geopolitical...
- External links 2009-06-04
- A New Eastern Europe ETF from iShares
- Invest With An Edge submits: By Patrick Watson Friday, October 2 was launch day for iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Eastern Europe Index Fund ESR. The fund tracks, not surprisingly, the MSCI Emerging Markets Eastern Europe Index. Emphasis should be on “Eastern” since Russia dominates ESR just as...
- External links 2009-10-04
- Shining Light on Van Eck's Africa ETF
- Manshu Verma submits: A lot of people are looking at investing in emerging markets and few are venturing one step beyond and looking at Africa too. At present, there aren’t many ETFs that focus on Africa, so your options are limited. Van Eck Africa ETF AFK is...
- External links 2009-10-04
- Moody's Upgrade Should See MSCI Brazil ETF Add to a Stellar Year
- As Business News America reported yesterday, Moody's Investor Services are looking at an upgrade of Brazil's investment grade, which would be good news for the economy as a whole, the financial sector in particular and, more interestingly, for retail investors. iShares MSCI Brazil Index: EWZ by Peter Medved
- External links 2009-09-22
- The Next Big Thing: Emerging Asia
- IndexUniverse submits: By Daniel Harrison Cris Sholto Heaton’s recent article on investing in the small Asian countries outside China and India brings a welcome change to the usual run-of-the-mill emerging markets coverage. by Index Universe
- External links 2009-09-23
- Brazil ETFs: Big Returns Come in Small Caps
- Michael Johnston submits: Since it was tabbed for inclusion in the BRIC bloc of countries in 2001, Brazil has been a popular choice for investors around the globe. The world’s fifth most-populous nation has seen tremendous economic growth over the last decade, bolstered by sound economic policies that have kept...
- External links 2009-09-25
- Fareed Zakharia: Emerging Markets Will Outperform
- Lawrence Weinman submits: Courtesy of the folks from iShares I attended a presentation that included a lunch talk by Fareed Zakharia of Newsweek and CNN. I have heard many speakers at occasions of this type and never have I heard anything close in terms of clarity intelligence and...
- External links 2009-10-30
- Avtovaz Dilemma Reveals Challenges for Russia ETF
- Michael Johnston submits: As global investors have regained their appetite for risk, many emerging market ETFs have surged in 2009, recording gains of more than 100% in many cases. Van Eck’s Market Vectors Russia ETF RSX is one of these funds, nearly tripling between March and October before pulling back...
- External links 2009-11-03
- iShares Plans First Chilean ETFs
- Michael Johnston submits: The world’s largest ETF issuer has some grand plans to continue the spread of the ETF structure around the globe. San Francisco-based iShares plans to launch the first ETFs in Chile later this year, as well as add funds that track specific Brazilian industries as demand for...
- External links 2009-10-13
- Van Eck Launches Vietnam ETF
- Van Eck has launched the first US traded ETF to focus on the Vietnamese market, adding to its impressive lineup of emerging market single country funds. The Van Eck Market Vectors Vietnam VMN tracks a custom index of equities from firms that generate more than 50% of their revenues in...
- External links 2009-08-17
- Two Strong Africa ETFs
- Mary Daniel submits: Let me just start out by saying that there are truly many reasons not to invest in Africa. The political landscape is far from stable. Corruption is rampant. The continent is rocked with conflict without rest. Infrastructure is pretty much non-existent. However,...
- External links 2009-09-04
- ETF Ideas for Poland's Handsome Recovery
- Tom Lydon ETF Trends submits: Poland’s economy and related ETFs have sidestepped the reaches of recession and the country may end up as one of the few European countries to report a positive growth for the year. by Tom Lydon
- External links 2009-09-07
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