Investors have put record amounts into Emerging Market bond ETFs for the past two quarters. But with so much money chasing yields, is there still good value to be had? To find out, we examined the iShares J.P. Morgan Emerging Market Bond ETF (EMB), the largest and most liquid fund in this category, with about…
The iShares MSCI Thailand ETF (THD) is up more than 3% today even as the broader Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) is off about 1%. In what may be a reverse case of “buy the rumor, sell the news”, Thai stocks had declined about 10% in recent sessions on worries that King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s poor health was unstable and…
ETF investors yanked more money from funds invested in the Euro zone than they did from the United Kingdom in the third quarter of this year. Overall, Euro-area assets saw net outflows[1] of about $5 billion, or 4.9% of their net assets at the start of Q3. Some individual countries in the Euro saw much…
The ETF Analyzer, Sector SPDR Edition for October 2016 is ready for download. This monthly publication has succinct one-page reports on each of the 11 Select Sector SPDR ETFs in three easy-to-read sections: Investment Summary, Fundamentals, and Composition. It helps investors: Evaluate the funds based on investment merit using fundamental data and analysis Compare the Sector SPDRs with ease…
Deutsche Bank’s shares (DBK:GR) are tanking over renewed worries about the bank’s financial stability and whether it will need to seek help from Berlin, rumors of which the bank denies. Shares are down more than 50% year-to-date, including a decline of about 7% on Monday. Thankfully, the fallout for ETF investors has been limited so…
One of the most successful product innovations of the last few years has been the growth in minimum volatility, or “Min Vol” ETFs, that seek to provide market returns while lowering volatility. Assets have grown from under $1 billion at the end of 2011 to $44 billion today, a growth rate of 132% annually (Figure…
Emerging Market ETFs—both equities and fixed income—were the big winners in the battle for assets in August. Among equity funds, developed markets captured 73% of all net flows[1], while emerging markets captured 27%. That’s fewer absolute dollars being allocated to emerging markets, but that 27% is still nearly triple the category’s 9.7% slice of the…
The ETF Analyzer, Sector SPDR Edition for September 2016 is ready for download. This monthly publication has succinct one-page reports on each of the 11 Select Sector SPDR ETFs in three easy-to-read sections: Investment Summary, Fundamentals, and Composition. It helps investors: Evaluate the funds based on investment merit using fundamental data and analysis Compare the Sector SPDRs with ease…
If you read the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Bloomberg.com or any number of market commentaries over the weekend, you probably saw the ruckus raised last week by a research note from Sanford Bernstein, the NY brokerage firm, entitled “The Silent Road to Serfdom: Why Passive Investing is Worse Than Marxism.” Kudos to the author, Bernstein strategist…
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