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June ETF Roundup: Launches, Filings, and Closures

Jared Cummans — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:00:09 +0000

June was another interesting month for markets around the world as a number of important events transpired over the past few weeks. The Federal Reserve meeting came and went without much of a hitch as Bernanke called for the end of QE at the end of the month but suggested that the economy was still too weak to consider raising rates any time soon. While this was undoubtedly an important event, investors focused in on the euro zone and the ongoing debt crisis rocking many of the peripheral members. The focus was especially on Greece, as Athens debated on the merits of another round of austerity measures before voting them in by a slim five vote margin in the final days of June. This helped to ease investor concerns heading into the second half of the year, allowing the S&P 500 to gain back much of the losses that it [...]

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EGShares Launches Suite Of Emerging Market Sector ETFs

Eric Dutram — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:00:42 +0000

Emerging Global, the New York City-based ETF issuer best known for its funds that target consumers and infrastructure in developing nations, rolled out the latest addition to its product lineup Thursday with the debut of nine GEMS (Global Emerging Markets Sectors) funds. The lineup offers investors the chance to buy some of the largest companies in the world that are based in emerging markets in each of the ten market sectors, as well as a composite fund that represents all of the individual market segments. In total, the lineup consists of 11 ETFs; three are rebranded products and eight are brand new ETFs, nearly doubling the total number of funds that the company is offering. All of the eleven funds will track Dow Jones Emerging Markets Titans indexes, which are benchmarks that include the 30 largest companies in each sector across various emerging nations. Investors should also note that these [...]

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Emerging Global Splits Shares On Four Emerging Markets ETFs

Jared Cummans — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:00:43 +0000

Economic growth in the U.S. in recent years has been virtually non-existent, prompting more and more investors to turn to emerging markets, whose economies–as well as overall populations–are growing at an exponential rate. With the majority of growth occurring overseas, ETF issuers were soon to follow, now offering a wealth of funds to track these booming nations. Relatively new to the emerging market space is Emerging Global Shares, who issued their first ETF in early 2009. Since then, the company has released eight funds to help investors to target developing markets [see also Sector Investing With Emerging Markets ETFs]. Earlier this week, EG Shares announced that four of its most popular funds will undergo splits. Two-for-one splits will occur in EEO, EFN, and EEG, while EMT will split three-for-one. The splits will be effective for all shareholders of record on September 13th, with the actual split payout coming after market [...]

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MSCI Holds Steady: No Changes to EEM, VWO

Michael Johnston — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:53:19 +0000

Following Beijing’s surprise announcement of a shift in its currency policy, investors scrambled on Monday to snap up assets deemed to benefit from the change while attempting to interpret the ultimate impact on the global economy. The focus on the yuan’s new-found flexibility distracted investors from an important announcement out of Switzerland, where index provider MSCI released the results of its 2010 Annual Market Classification Review. MSCI constructs and maintains the benchmarks to which many popular exchange-traded products are linked, meaning that changes in classifications of national economies could spur a shake-up from ETFs and index funds. Last year Israel was upgraded from “emerging” to “developed” status, prompting Israeli equities to be dropped from the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and added to the MSCI EAFE Index, a relatively minor shake-up considering the size country’s economy. This year’s review brought potential for a much bigger reshuffling, with promotions for both South [...]

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Ticking Time Bomb Under EEM

Michael Johnston — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:00:54 +0000

In recent weeks, increased international scrutiny over Israel’s blockade of Gaza and conflicts with vessels carrying aid to the impoverished area have overshadowed a rather unique economic accomplishment. Israel was recently reclassified from “emerging” to “developed” market status by index provider MSCI Barra, the firm responsible for creating and maintaining the benchmarks behind many popular exchange-traded products. The upgrade had been in the works for some time; MSCI first announced that Israeli markets met all the qualifications for developed status last June. Such an announcement is undoubtedly a positive development for a country that has made great strides in improving quality of life indicators and market transparency while rooting out corruption. So the impact on Israeli stocks as the news broke was at first a bit perplexing; the iShares MSCI Israel Investable Market Index Fund (EIS) slid more than 4% when the initial announcement was made, a far bigger loss [...]

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ETF Plays On The Next Developed Markets

Michael Johnston — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:11:19 +0000

Before it attracted intense scrutiny from the international community for its ongoing blockade of Gaza, Israel had made headlines last month for a relatively rare economic achievement. The country was recently upgraded from an emerging market to a developed market by index provider MSCI Barra, meaning that Israeli equities were cast out of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and into the MSCI EAFE Index. Israel became the first country to graduate to developed status (in the eyes of MSCI at least) since Greece in 2001. While somewhat uncommon, upward movements to developed status are not unprecedented; many of the world’s advanced economies were once tabbed with “emerging” status, including Japan. It’s worth noting that while an upgrade to developed status is undoubtedly a major accomplishment, the impact on equity markets can be adverse. When Israel’s promotion was made announced, stocks promptly plummeted. That’s because investors anticipated a net selling of [...]

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Another Case For Emerging Markets ETFs

Michael Johnston — Tue, 18 May 2010 17:57:19 +0000

All indications are that the global recession ended long ago and a recovery is now well underway. But storm clouds remain over much of the global economy, preventing green shoots from taking root. The economic hurdles in the developed world are both numerous and significant. The number of unemployed Americans continues to rise. Europe is teetering dangerously on the brink of a sovereign debt crisis that threatens to undermine the common currency system (see Six ETFs To Watch As The Greek Drama Unfolds). Japan continues to battle deflation as a stubbornly strong yen weighs on export markets. These dismal predicaments in industrialized nations stand in sharp contrast to the stories unfolding in the world’s emerging markets. China’s primary concern is growing too quickly, as a sustained boom threatens to overheat the economy. Malaysia recently raised interest rates for the second time this year, as the Central Bank attempts to curb [...]

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How Global Are Global ETFs?

Michael Johnston — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:05:19 +0000

When mutual funds broke on to the investing scene, they won praise for their ability to pool assets and efficiently deliver exposure to a large basket of underlying securities. ETFs, while different from mutual funds in many ways (see five of them here), generally share this appeal; they offer an even more cost efficient way to access a pool of assets through the purchase of a single security. Besides the obvious cost benefits of an all ETF-portfolio, the idea of monitoring only a handful of holdings is a welcome and simplifying development for many investors. So the thought of constructing a well-diversified portfolio with only a handful securities isn’t as ludicrous as it may sound, and is in fact put into practice by all types of investors. ETFdb Pro members can access our line of all-ETF model portfolios, all of which maintain between seven and 12 ETFs (if you’re not [...]

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Does Your Portfolio Need Another Emerging Markets ETF?

Eric Dutram — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:08:50 +0000

Interest in emerging markets investing has been on the rise over the last year, as developing economies have become an increasingly important component of the global economy. The conventional wisdom that called for significant allocations to U.S. markets and no more than 5% or 10% to emerging markets is being challenged, both by individual investors and big financial institutions. Hartford Financial executives are now advising clients to put as much as 54% of their stock allocations to foreign markets.”We’re in the second inning, not the ninth inning, of this new order here,” said Bob Froelich, senior managing director at The Hartford Mutual Funds. “It’s a game-changer and that’s where you’re really going to make money in 2010, in those emerging markets.” For asset allocation strategies this year, Froelich is recommending 32% of a portfolio in emerging markets equities.This bullish take on emerging markets is due in large part to Hartford’s [...]

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This Week In ETFs: March 19 Edition

Seth Dowling — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:36:05 +0000

A week highlighted by the relatively uneventful Federal Reserve meeting saw equity markets head generally higher, as investors cheered the prospect of several more months of low interest rates. After months of heated debate, a vote on health care reform looms over the weekend, and health care funds above-average volumes throughout the week. Below, we offer our picks for the week’s most important and interesting ETF stories from around the Web (sign up for our free ETF newsletter to get ETF analysis and commentary delivered to your inbox): When Are Emerging Markets Not Emerging Anymore? at Index Universe: Interest in emerging markets has surged over the last year, as the developing economies of the world have taken the lead in the global recovery effort. There are a number of emerging markets ETFs available to ETF investors, but Olivier Ludwig notes that they’re not all identical. The most significant differences between [...]

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