Investment Management
This Southern European nation has recorded a gross domestic product of 0.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016. Its fourth quarter economic performance surpasses the Euro Area and is ahead of France, Germany and Italy. We see its Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) climbing 11.5 percent in 2017 Still, Spain’s latest number is down […]
In 2016, this Emerging Market Country ETF delivered returns of 40 percent AND paid a dividend yield of 2.93 percent. If that is not good enough, its stock index was included in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index In October 2016, S&P Global raised its long-term Pakistan sovereign credit ratings to B from B minus […]
While 2016 marked the largest equity fund redemptions since 2008, with $6.3 billion departing emerging market funds, these 6 country ETFs soared to deliver total returns of 264 percent. In 2016, a record $282 billion flowed into U.S. ETFs In the week ending Thursday, Dec. 29, investors added $6.8 billion to U.S.-listed exchange-traded funds, according […]
Nomura, Japan’s largest brokerage, and Morgan Stanley have turned bullish on Japanese equities. The Topix Index has climbed more than 25% since July and Nomura’s Norikazu Akedo sees a 24% appreciation in 2017 and a 14 % climb for the Nikkei The Topix slumped 19 percent in the first half of 2016 as the […]
Assets in smart beta ETFs have grown from approximately $150 billion to more than $450 billion over the past five years, according to Morningstar. The percentage of advisors who have invested 91% to 100% of their AUM in ETFs has more than doubled over the past three years, to 15% from 6%, according to a […]
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