Emerging Markets

With the economy still showing concern in the U.S. and job rates still high, many investors are looking at equity investments outside the US. One of the easiest ways of investing internationally is with Exchange-Traded Funds or ETFs. Of the roughly 1,500 ETFs available to trade, there are 7 large ones that focus on international markets.

This week iShares launched a new emerging markets ETF, ticker EEMS,  which is intended to track the MSCI Emerging Markets Small Cap Index.  The top three countries represented in terms of holding are currenty Taiwan, Korea, and China. The top three country sector exposure weightings are currently consumer discretionary, industrials, and financials. For original article, [...]

Investors now have the ability to easily track the performance of small-cap companies in Mexico with the release of a new ETF by Global X Funds. The new fund is known as Global X Mexico Small-Cap ETF (ticker: MEXS) and is the first of its kind. According to Bruno del Ama, chief executive officer of [...]

Fund issuer State Street Global Advisors has launched two ETFs – S&P Emerging Markets Dividend Fund (EDIV) and Barclays Capital Emerging Markets Local Bond Fund (EBND). The new ETFs are designed the fill the gap created by absence of funds that help investors control exposure to debt and dividend investments in a precise manner. The [...]

ETF issuers are cashing in on China’s growth by offering China centric funds. FTSE China 25 Index Fund (FXI) offered by iShares has assets spread over 20 big firms in China which do business in huge volumes and enjoy good brand recall in the market. The fund has invested in top companies in the cell [...]

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 [...]

The month of January, 2011 saw $9 billion excess inflow in to the market as compared to outflows in exchange traded funds in the USA. This is the fifth consecutive month where inflow exceeded outflow in America. The total assets invested in ETFs in American crossed $1 trillion in January. This figure is expected to [...]

ETFs investing in Chinese equities reached all time low or hovered dangerously close to their 200 day moving average. The fall in prices combined with interest rate hike may imply high losses for investors of these ETFs. iShares FTSE China 25 Index Fund (FXI), with total assets worth $6.8 billion, fell 2.5% and hit a [...]

Global X Funds has launched the first ETF to focus on the Andean region – the Global X FTSE Andean 40 ETF. The ETF tracks an index composed of 40 biggest corporate organizations in South American countries Chile, Colombia and Peru. The top 10 companies make up more than 50% of the entire holdings of [...]

Exchange traded equity funds saw outflows in excess of $2.17 billion in the week that ended on Feb 2. US based funds saw inflow of $4.2 billion during the same period. Investors are shying away from investing wholly in emerging markets. The global economic crisis in 2008 saw investors preferring emerging markets as investment destinations. [...]