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Forget BRIC ETFs: Look To VISTA Nations For Better Opportunities

Eric Dutram — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:45:49 +0000

One of the biggest stories in the investing world over the past few years as been the rise of emerging markets. These countries continue to grow at an impressive clip and are in a much better position from a fiscal perspective than their developed market counterparts. Furthermore, the countries often have more favorable demographics than fully-industrialized nations, suggesting that more gains could be had in the future as well. Unfortunately, many of these trends have become painfully obvious to pretty much every investor, causing many to pile into funds such as EEM or VWO for broad based exposure. Beyond these two funds, another popular choice has been to take a closer look at the BRIC bloc of countries which represents four large emerging markets, Brazil, Russia, India, and China. These four nations have, thanks to their large size and domination of key industries, attracted the lion’s share of assets by [...]

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Three ETFs To Watch This Week: CNDA, EWG, IDX

Eric Dutram — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:00:50 +0000

This past week was a brutal one for equity markets as a wave of selling crushed sectors across the board. The benchmark S&P 500 index saw its value decline by nearly 6.5% on the week, marking one of the roughest five day stretches in recent memory. Generally speaking, this decline was thanks to investors being pretty disappointed with the Fed’s new response to the markets as many were hoping for more of a boost than the $400 billion for “Operation Twist”. Due to this lack of more stimulus from the Fed, as well as continued turmoil in Europe, many investors capitulated and headed for safer assets such as Treasury bonds instead. Yet, even traditional safe havens, such as gold and silver, saw heavy selling pressure as well; GLD finished the week lower by 9.2% and SLV was down 23.9% in the same time period. In other words, it was a pretty rough [...]

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Van Eck Plans Small Cap Indonesia ETF

Michael Johnston — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:50:17 +0000

Van Eck has filed details for what would be the first ETF to offer exposure to small cap Indonesian stocks, laying the groundwork for further expansion in the ETF industry. The recent SEC filing shed some light on the proposed Market Vectors Indonesia Small-Cap ETF, which would join a pair of other products offering exposure to the red hot emerging Asian economy. According to the ETF Country Exposure Tool, there are a number of ETFs that offer exposure to Indonesian equities, including the popular Market Vectors Indonesia ETF (IDX). That ETF, which has about $700 million in assets, is dominated by large cap stocks and has a tilt towards the financial and material sectors. iShares also offers a “pure play” Indonesia ETF; the MSCI Indonesia Index Fund (EIDO) is similarly focused on large cap stocks with a hefty allocation to Indonesian banks [compare IDX and EIDO head to head]. Those [...]

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What Slowdown? Indonesia ETFs Hold Their Ground In Global Crisis

Eric Dutram — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:45:13 +0000

While 2011 may have gotten off to a good start for many equity markets, a summer slowdown has hit stocks across the globe. Worries over the fallout from a downgrade of American debt have now shifted to concerns over more stimulus either by the Federal Reserve or by Congress. Yet more measures coming down the pike seems uncertain at best, leaving the American economy to muddle through its current economic malaise. Meanwhile, in Europe things aren’t much better as the debt contagion striking the peripheral markets of Spain, Greece, and Italy, is now threatening to strike core nations such as France and Germany as well. As a result of this broad uncertainty and the widespread fears over a double dip recession, many investors have pulled out of stocks and have looked to products such as gold or Treasury bonds as a way to wait out the storm. This has pushed gold to a [...]

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Talking Indonesia ETFs With Van Eck’s Ed Kuczma

Eric Dutram — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:00:03 +0000

Ed Kuczma is a member of the Investment Team at Van Eck Global, a firm that has a number of ETFs targeting various corners of the market both in equities and in bonds. Currently, Ed specializes in the EMEA region, doing analysis on the various markets that make up these emerging regions. One of the more popular products that Van Eck offers in this space is the Market Vectors Indonesia Index ETF (IDX) which has $800 million in assets. Yet, despite this relative popularity, Indonesia is often overshadowed by larger markets in the space that have managed to steal the spotlight from this rapidly growing nation. Ed recently spoke with ETF Database about the this forgotten market, telling us both the promise and perils of investing in this dynamic country, and how Indonesia can fit into a broader portfolio: ETF Database (ETFdb): Indonesia is quickly becoming a favorite of many who [...]

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Van Eck Plans Mongolia ETF

Michael Johnston — Tue, 24 May 2011 11:00:07 +0000

Van Eck, the issuer behind a number of country-specific emerging markets ETFs, recently laid the groundwork to launch what would be the industry’s first Mongolia ETF. In an SEC filing last week, the company outlined an ETF that would seek to replicate a to-be-determined index that would consist of companies domiciled and primarily listed on an exchange in Mongolia or that generates at least half of its revenue in Mongolia. The filing didn’t include an expense ratio or ticker symbol for the proposed fund. According to the ETF country exposure tool, there are currently four equity ETFs that include Mongolia in their top ten country allocations, though none makes a meaningful allocation. Mongolian stocks account for about 0.8% of the PowerShares Global Coal Portfolio (PKOL) and even less of the MSCI Pacific ex-Japan Index Fund (EPP) and Vanguard Pacific ETF (VPL). First Mongolia ETF Mongolia’s economy has traditionally been based [...]

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Three ETFs To Watch This Week: IDX, BBH, FAA

Eric Dutram — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:00:17 +0000

This past week marked the start to earnings season, and for the most part the reports disappointed investors and sparked sell-offs. One of the most important reports to hit the market this week came from banking giant JP Morgan. The firm reported a huge profit increase of 67% but sluggish revenues and little revenue growth kept the company’s stock in check. The banking sector was also hit by news of a brewing scandal involving several of the country’s largest banks and the possibility that they illegally influenced one of the world’s key interest rates, LIBOR. Thanks to this, markets hit their lows for the week on Thursday as these fears combined with weakness in the unemployment claims department to rekindle investor pessimism. However, thanks to some good news late Thursday and early Friday, some sectors of the economy managed to bounce back and put U.S. equities on a more solid [...]

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Van Eck Cuts Fees On Poland, Indonesia ETFs

Michael Johnston — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:00:02 +0000

Van Eck has become the latest ETF issuer to announce ETF fee reductions, lowering the expense ratios on two of its country-specific international ETFs. Effective January 26, the expense cap on the Market Vectors Indonesia Index ETF (IDX) was lowered from 0.68% to 0.60%. The expense cap on the Market Vectors Poland Index ETF (PLND) was lowered from 0.65% to 0.60%. The expense reductions will remain in place until at least May 1, 2012. “International funds generally have higher net expense ratios than domestic funds but we try to pass on lower expenses to shareholders as we achieve economies of scale,” said Jan van Eck, Principal at Van EckGlobal.” Van Eck was the first issuer to introduce “pure play” ETFs focusing on the economies of Indonesia and Poland. But in the last year, iShares has launched direct competitors to these products; the MSCI Indonesia Investable Market Index Fund (EIDO) and [...]

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Tuesday’s ETF Chart To Watch: Market Vectors Indonesia Fund (IDX)

Stoyan Bojinov — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:00:42 +0000

Wall Street started the trading week on a downward note, with talks of a Portugal bailout sending equities lower across the board. Gold managed to post a small gain for the session alongside a weaker dollar but the yellow metal is still struggling to regain lost ground following its sharp sell-off last week. Meanwhile, other commodities were also active as crude oil jumped 1.5% after news of a rupture in the Trans-Alaska pipeline made headlines over the weekend and remained almost entirely shut off on Monday. So far in 2011, equities have struggled to move much this year, and growing concerns in the euro-zone seem to be putting pressure on investor sentiment, which has been translated into range-bound trading for major indexes. Luckily Europe can’t steal all the headlines this week, with a round of corporate earnings hitting the wire all throughout the week, investors will be kept busy as [...]

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Top Ten Equity ETFs Of 2010

Jared Cummans — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:00:54 +0000

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 [...]

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