Thailand

A new oil tracking ETF is about to slide onto the scene. The fund, known as IQ Global Oil Small Cap ETF (ticker: IOIL), will track smaller oil companies in more than ten countries around the world. The U.S. will carry the biggest weight with nearly half of the companies while Canada and Thailand round [...]

IndexIQ, a NY based firm offering asset management service is offering a line of single country ETFs with small capital outlay. The ETFs shall focus on high growth Asian countries like Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Philippines. The firm aims to help US investors gain from the China success story by investing money [...]

Precious metals based ETFs provided good returns in 2010 along with other funds that invest in countries like Peru and Colombia. The iShares MSCI Peru ETF (EPU) and the Global X/InterBolsa FTSE Colombia ETF (GXG) invested in these two raw material rich growing economies and offered returns in excess of 52% and 57% respectively. The [...]

Planning for the future, Direxion has filed with the SEC to create 36 new funds. 34 of these will be bullish and bearish triple leveraged funds, all pending during the heat of a SEC review. Following the popularity of geographically centered ETFs, many of the new funds will be leveraged around a portfolio of stocks [...]

EGA Emerging Global Shares has filed for a new line of seven exchange-traded funds that would center on BRIC nations and their economies. Six of the funds target infrastructure and mid cap stocks, while the remainder is set to track a broader index of Asian companies. The new funds filed with the SEC are: 1. [...]

Emerging market exchange-traded funds will soon experience a dramatic shift in the countries they invest. As of this year, South Korea, a staple in most emerging market ETFs, will be upgraded to a developed nation status and no longer qualifies for investment from emerging market-only funds. The Street reports that one particular fund, the iShares [...]

Barclays Bank has provided a diversified opportunity to invest in various currencies of the Asian region. According to the Mondo Visione article, Barclays has listed a new ETN on the NYSE Arca that gives access to eight different currencies within emerging markets of Asia. The new ETN, known as the Barclays GEMS Asia 8 ETN [...]

Barclays Global Investors has announced the launch of its newest iShares ETF to capture a broad and diversified piece of various Asian markets. Michael Latham, CEO of U.S. iShares at Barclays is quoted to say, “Since iShares launched the first pure mainland China ETF for U.S. investors in 2005, investors have continued to ask for [...]

Taiwan’s Polaris Securities Investment Trust Co Ltd looks to be the issuer of an upcoming Taiwan ETF on the Abu Dhabi Securities Market (ADSM). This equity-based ETF is mentioned in the Thomson Financial article as being released around the end of the year or beginning of the next. This projected debut is said to be [...]

The second ETF in Thailand, and the first to follow a sector (Energy), is gearing up for release on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) in July. The Bangkok Post reports that the portfolio will encompass large-cap, high liquidity energy stocks. Some of the companies listed include: PTT Exploration and Production, PTT Aromatics and Refining, [...]