Over the past few years it has become increasingly clear that China is now the most important economy in the world. Though second to the U.S. in total size, China accounts directly for a significant portion of global GDP growth and has contributed indirectly to expansion in developed and emerging markets around the globe–particularly resource rich countries that have stepped up to fuel ongoing urbanization and aggressive infrastructure expansions and improvements.
As interest in China’s equity markets has surged in recent years, it shouldn’t be surprising that investors have embraced ETFs as an efficient means of accessing this promising economy. There are currently nearly two dozen ETFs offering exposure to China, including both broad-based and sector-specific offerings. Moreover, investors seeking leveraged exposure or access to the Chinese currency have additional choices from the ETF lineup. [click to continue…]
This year hasn’t been very kind to emerging market investing, as a number of developing economies have struggled to maintain momentum thanks to fears over price increases and general risk aversion. In particular, the world’s most populous emerging market, China, has endured a particularly rocky 2011. Many investors are growing increasingly concerned over the country’s [...]
As the ETF world has grown over the past few years some sectors have seen an incredible level of product development, giving investors a multitude of investment options to achieve their financial goals. That is especially true in the emerging markets ETF space, where increased granularity allows investors to customize their exposure to the world’s [...]
The impact of the recent global economic slowdown was first felt by consumers around the world who were forced to cut back on purchases in order to endure the recession. While some consumer segments such as the wealthy, have begun to spend again, the events of the last two years have also had a profound, [...]
The saga of Google in China took another turn today, as the search engine giant announced it had adapted its business plan to meet Beijing’s demands. For the past three months Google has been redirecting Chinese users to the company’s Hong Kong search engine, which is uncensored. The Chinese government lost patience with the automatic [...]
Google, the California-based search engine giant, made good on its promise to stop censoring results in China on Monday evening, upping the stakes in its showdown with the Chinese government. Google announced in January that it would end its voluntary censorship of its China search service following a series of attacks on email services from [...]
Claymore, the Chicagoland issuer known for its line of themed ETFs and targeted sector funds, has launched three new ETFs based on broad market indexes maintained by Wilshire. The new funds include the Wilshire 5000 Total Market ETF (WFVK), Wilshire 45oo Completion Index ETF (WXSP), and Wilshire U.S. REIT ETF (WREI).
Whenever a company prepares for a public offering, executives have been known to spend an inordinate amount of time choosing the combination of letters that will serve as the company’s ticker and often nickname within the investment community. To many, the fixation on selecting the perfect ticker seems like an irrational obsession on par with [...]
Google set off a frenzy on internet message boards and in the human rights community earlier this week when the search engine giant announced in a blog post that it had been the target of a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China” that was apparently carried out with the [...]
As ETFs have grown from a closet industry to a mainstream investing option, funds offering exposure to nearly every corner of the globe have popped up. Although the abundance of funds has brought access to dozens of equity markets within reach, the vast majority of international ETFs provide fairly shallow exposure to the country they [...]
On Tuesday, Claymore Securities launched its China Technology ETF (CQQQ), the first U.S.-listed ETF to focus on the Chinese technology sector. CQQQ joins three other China ETFs from Claymore (YAO, HAO, TAO) that have accumulated more than $500 million in aggregate assets. The new ETF will seek to replicate the AlphaShares China Technology Index, a [...]
