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Global X, one of the fastest-growing ETF issuers, continues to build out the emerging markets portion of its lineup. The company announced today the launch of the Global X FTSE Andean 40 ETF (AND), linked to an index that tracks the performance of the 40 largest companies in Chile, Colombia, and Peru. [click to continue…]
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With the new year just around the corner, it seems as if 2010 will go down as a generally positive year for investors. Despite numerous and somewhat serious lingering concerns over the health of the global economy, most asset classes have posted impressive gains on the year as the odds of a “double dip” have diminished considerably.
Last year, the list of the best-performing equity ETFs was dominated by emerging markets funds, a trend that continued once again in 2010. But it is not the usual suspects of Brazil, China, and India that have turned in the most impressive results, highlighting the tremendous potential of the world’s lesser-known developing economies. And once again the list of the best-performing equity ETFs of the year includes a number of relative unknowns, demonstrating the appeal of going beyond the “super tickers” that account for a huge portion of industry assets to identify smaller and more targeted ETF options. [click to continue…]
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As investor interest for traditional developed markets such as America, Europe, and Japan continues to wane, many are putting money to work in rapidly-expanding emerging markets that account for a huge portion of global GDP growth. While a big chunk of these emerging market inflows have gone towards the BRIC nations of Brazil, Russia, India, [...]
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No matter where investors look in the developed world, the picture isn’t pretty. In the U.S. unemployment remains intolerably high, and uncertainty over the latest round of QE will continue to hang over stock markets. In Europe efforts to control surging deficits have been met with protests and public outrage, complicating the process of reeling [...]
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Global X announced on Friday the launch of its second new ETF in as many days, adding the Global X Uranium ETF (URA) to a fast-growing lineup. The new product will track the Solactive Global Uranium Index, a benchmark designed to reflect the performance of companies engaged in various parts of the uranium industry, including [...]
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As growth continues to be hard to come by in the developed world, many investors have trended towards emerging markets as a way to boost sagging portfolios. While many have turned to the usual suspects of the BRIC bloc, a few wise investors have gone beyond the beaten path to smaller markets such as Malaysia, [...]
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In the wake of the latest global recession, it is the emerging markets of the world that have emerged as the clear drivers of global growth. As a surging consumer segment propels China and India forward, resource-rich Latin America is well positioned to benefit from increased global demand for raw materials–particularly as the U.S. dollar [...]
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As the term ‘BRIC’ has entered the average American’s lexicon over the past two decades, many investors have seen the promise and peril of exposure to these rising superpowers. As more have invested and globalization has occurred, the correlation between these markets and industrialized nations has risen substantially; the once untapped markets see billions of [...]
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Thanks to ongoing turmoil in developed markets, many investors have put their dollars to work in emerging markets around the globe in an effort to generate material growth in their portfolios. Many ETFs have stepped up in recent years to give investors a variety of locales in which to invest, including funds targeting the Vietnamese, [...]
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The monthly ETF statistical bulletins have become somewhat predictable in recent months, as continued inflows into the ETF industry have been about as certain as death and taxes. So the latest figures from the NSX came as a bit of a shock; total ETF assets declined from about $835 million to $815 million during the [...]
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When seeking out exposure to emerging markets, investors tend to gravitate towards the superstar economies of India and China, two markets that are expanding at mind-boggling rates as cities swell and the middle class becomes wealthier. But Latin America has been another critical driver of global GDP growth in recent years, as the resource-rich continent [...]
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Over the past few weeks, many emerging and developed markets have trended sideways or even fallen as continued concerns over global growth have plagued stocks around the world. Almost no geographic region has been immune to this doom and gloom, with markets falling everywhere from Britain to Brazil and every country in between. As more [...]
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