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ETF Research Report Now Available: China ETFs In Focus

Michael Johnston — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:00:03 +0000

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. Each of the China ETFs puts a unique spin on exposure to the Asian powerhouse, [...]

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Here’s An Idea: Small-Cap BRIC ETF

Michael Johnston — Fri, 20 May 2011 11:00:59 +0000

As the ETF industry has continued to expand at a breakneck pace, the introduction of first-to-market products has become somewhat commonplace. Well more than 100 ETFs have debuted this year, many of them targeting an asset class or investment strategy not previously accessible within the ETF wrapper. Recent weeks have seen the debut of the first car ETF, a pure play fishing ETF, and a bond ETF dedicated to debt of Latin America issuers. Unlike the reaction to hyper-targeted funds that have debuted in years past, investors have given many of these niche products a relatively warm reception. In addition to the hundreds of new launches, the ETF product pipeline has continued to fill as well. SEC filings have accelerated in recent weeks, with issuers planning a wide variety of additional funds that offer sector-specific exposure to international economies and tools for playing narrow investment themes withing the U.S. market. [...]

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BRIC ETF Investing: Small Cap Edition

Michael Johnston — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:00:52 +0000

In recent years interest in achieving exposure to emerging markets has intensified tremendously, as the developing economies of the world have established themselves as the clear leaders of GDP growth while advanced economies have struggled to regain their footing. While there are dozens of countries that fall under “emerging” status, exposure to this investment strategy has generally focused around the BRIC bloc that includes four economies expected to see their contribution to global GDP swell in coming decades. The BRIC economies–Brazil, Russia, India, and China–have very little in common in terms of geography, culture, or even the makeup of their respective economies. The term was originally coined by a Goldman Sachs economist who had never visited three of the four countries but believed that the collective economies would grow to eventually surpass the six largest western economies in terms of economic size and importance. What seemed like a ludicrously bold [...]

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Van Eck Debuts Small Cap Russia ETF (RSXJ)

Michael Johnston — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:55:50 +0000

Today marks the first day of trading for the Market Vectors Russia Small-Cap ETF (RSXJ), the first exchange-traded product offering U.S. investors exposure to small cap Russian stocks. The new fund from Van Eck will seek to replicate the performance of the Market Vectors Russia Small-Cap Index, a benchmark that includes about 35 small cap Russian stocks. The underlying components are unlikely to be familiar to many U.S. investors; the largest individual weightings are afforded to Pharmstandar, (8%), LSR Group (7.9%), and O’Key Group (6.8%). Small Cap Difference RSXJ joins three existing Russia ETFs, the most popular of which is a Market Vectors fund (RSX) with nearly $4 billion in AUM. The Market Vectors Russia ETF offers exposure primarily to large cap firms; about 95% of the underlying index is firms with a market capitalization in excess of $5 billion, with the remainder attributable to firms between $1 billion and [...]

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Van Eck Launches Small Cap Germany ETF (GERJ)

Michael Johnston — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:02:45 +0000

Van Eck announced the latest addition to its fast-growing ETF lineup today, rolling out a fund that offers exposure to small cap German companies. The Market Vectors Germany Small-Cap ETF (GERJ) will seek to replicate the Market Vectors Germany Small-Cap Index, a benchmark that includes small cap companies listed in Germany or that generate at least 50% of their revenues in Germany. Prior to the launch of GERJ, the only “pure play” Germany ETF available to U.S. investors was the iShares MSCI Germany Index Fund (EWG). That product, which has close to $3 billion in assets, consists of about 50 large cap German companies; the largest allocations go to Siemens, BASF, Allianz, Bayer, and Daimler. The median market cap of the underlying index was more than $11 billion at the end of 2010, and the smallest company in the MSCI Germany Index has a market cap of $2.5 billion. The launch [...]

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Going Beyond EEM: Rounding Out Emerging Markets Exposure With ETFs

Stoyan Bojinov — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:00:38 +0000

In recent years, emerging markets have been established as the clear leaders of global GDP growth, while the economies of the U.S. and western Europe have stalled. Developed markets are facing stubbornly high unemployment and limited flexibility thanks to mounting debt burdens, while emerging markets continue to race ahead. In a recent economics paper, Goldman Sachs re-examined the prospects of emerging markets, and struck an extremely bullish tone for the future. Goldman’s report makes numerous bold (but well supported) claims, including the expectation of China to surpass the US in equity market capitalization by 2030 and become the single largest equity market in the world. The report also notes that emerging markets currently account for 37% of global GDP, but that that percentage will increase to 49% by 2020 and 59% by 2030 [see ETFs For The "Next-11" Economies]. The rise in global economic importance of emerging markets has coincided [...]

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Closer Look At The China A-Shares ETF (PEK)

Michael Johnston — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:00:11 +0000

Once upon a time, exposure to the Chinese stock market was a binary decision for U.S. investors–they either had it or they didn’t. Thanks in part to increased flexibility in cross-border listings and in part to the proliferation of exchange-traded funds, investors now have countless options for exposure to the world’s second largest economy. In late 2004, the only ETF option for exposure to China was the FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Fund (FXI), a fund that focuses on mega-cap companies and is tilted heavily towards big banks and oil giants. Since then, continued innovation in the ETF industry has afforded investors options for both broader-based exposure and enhanced granularity. Guggenheim and iShares both offer funds focusing on small cap Chinese stocks (HAO and ECNS, respectively), and Guggenheim also offers an all-cap Chinese ETF (YAO) that invests across all market capitalization levels. Recent years have also seen the debut of a [...]

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Emerging Market ETFs: Seven Factors Every Investor Should Consider

Eric Dutram — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:30:53 +0000

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 in government spending through austerity and establishing a platform for sustainable economic growth. And in Japan, the central bank has taken steps to weaken the currency in order to keep the country’s important exporters competitive on the global stage. However, the country’s debt levels now approach 200% of GDP–by far one of the highest levels in the developed world–raising all sorts of red flags around a market that has been stick in economic quicksand for the better part of two decades. While a few advanced markets have managed to avoid this malaise–namely those with significant [...]

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iShares Rolls Out Three New International ETFs

Michael Johnston — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:27:09 +0000

After watching rival Vanguard roll out more than a dozen domestic equity ETFs earlier this month, iShares continues to focus its attention on international stock markets, rolling out three new ETFs on Wednesday. The new funds include the MSCI Philippines Investable Market Index Fund (EPHE), MSCI Small Cap Brazil Index Fund (EWZS), and MSCI Small Cap China Index Fund (ECNS). The Philippines ETF will be the first of its kind to hit the U.S. market, while the other new products from iShares will go head-to-head with existing ETFs from Van Eck and Guggenheim. Philippines: An ETF First EPHE will seek to replicate the performance of the MSCI Philippines Investable Market Index, a benchmark that measures the performance of equity securities in the top 99% by market capitalization of stocks listed on stock exchanges in the Philippines. The index currently has about 27 securities, with a heavy tilt towards financials: that [...]

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Claymore Changes Name To Guggenheim Funds

Eric Dutram — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:02:26 +0000

As the ETF world continues to expand at an impressive pace, a number of companies have sought to bring their own lineup of funds to the market in order to grab a piece of this rapidly-increasing pie. However, some have taken a different approach to gaining an ETF foothold, preferring to buy up existing issuers with established product lines. That’s the strategy used by Guggenheim, which has purchased both Rydex and Claymore over the last year. Earlier today, the company announced that it was rebranding Claymore’s ETF products under the Guggenheim Funds name. All of the ETFs will retain their ticker symbols and CUSIP numbers; only the name “Claymore” will change. “Taking on the Guggenheim name is a significant milestone as we continue to develop our U.S. retail effort,” said Steven A. Baffico, Senior Managing Director at Guggenheim in an e-mail. “From the outset, Claymore has been a first-to-market provider [...]

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