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iShares MSCI South Africa ETFEZA Fund Description
EZA tracks the performance of a market-cap-weighted index of South African stocks. It captures 85% of the publicly available market, excluding all small-caps.
EZA Factset Analytics Insight
EZA captures the South African total equity space with a cap-weighted basket that holds about half as many firms as our segment benchmark. It tilts large compared to our more comprehensive benchmark but nevertheless provides neutral sector exposure and fairly even concentration with one major exception: Naspers Ltd comprises roughly a quarter of the portfolio and the vast majority of its exposure to the tech sector. In this it accurately reflects the underlying market, but it's still a striking concentration in an otherwise broadly-distributed fund. It trades well in both small and large sizes, and robust volume keeps average spreads fair. Large premiums and discounts don't indicate poor liquidity; instead, they just highlight the mismatch in trading hours between fund shares and underlying stocks. Those looking to trade blocks can expect low transaction costs too.The fund is expected to change its underlying index to MSCI South Africa 25/50 Index on or about 1 Spet 2017. The change will ensure compliance with RIC diversification requirement.
EZA MSCI ESG Analytics Insight
iShares MSCI South Africa ETF has an MSCI ESG Fund Rating of A based on a score of 5.86 out of 10. The MSCI ESG Fund Rating measures the resiliency of portfolios to long-term risks and opportunities arising from environmental, social, and governance factors. ESG Fund Ratings range from best (AAA) to worst (CCC). Highly rated funds consist of companies that tend to show strong and/or improving management of financially relevant environmental, social and governance issues. These companies may be more resilient to disruptions arising from ESG events.
The fund’s Peer Rank reflects the ranking of a fund’s MSCI ESG Fund Quality Score against the scores of other funds within the same peer group, as defined by the Thomson Reuters Lipper Global Classification. iShares MSCI South Africa ETF ranks in the 62nd percentile within its peer group and in the 95th percentile within the global universe of all funds covered by MSCI ESG Fund Ratings.
EZA MSCI FaCS and Factor Box
MSCI FaCS is a standard method for evaluating and reporting the Factor characteristics of equity portfolios including ETFs. The Factor Box includes 6 Factors that MSCI has identified that historically provided a return premium. On the vertical axis, the Factor Groups, are displayed and the horizontal axis displays the Factor exposure, overweight, underweight or neutral.
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EZA Factset Analytics Block Liquidity
This measurement shows how easy it is to trade a $1 million USD block of EZA. EZA is rated a 4 out of 5.
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