Emerging Market ETFs

Brazilian assets have been on a mini surge of late. The Brazil Bovespa Stock Index is up over 6 percent over the last four weeks, and part of that rally has come on the heels of news that former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will be serving 10 years in prison on corruption charges.   The...

Seasoned emerging market investors know that even supposedly diversified emerging markets exchange-traded funds are heavily allocated to Chinese stocks. Those allocations stand to increase following MSCI's June announcement that China A-shares, the stocks trading in Shanghai and Shenzhen, will...

The strength being displayed by emerging markets equities and the relevant exchange-traded funds is getting harder to ignore. For example, dozens of emerging markets ETFs hit 52-week highs on Wednesday with one of those being an seasoned veteran among alternatively-weighted funds in this asset...

The Global X MSCI Argentina ETF (NYSE: ARGT) has spent significant time this year as one of the best-performing single-country exchange-traded funds, but the largest ETF dedicated to Argentine stocks slipped a bit in June amid disappointing news from index provider MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI). A key...

Todd Gordon of TradingAnalysis.com recommended on CNBC's "Trading Nation" an options trading strategy in iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Indx (ETF) (NYSE: EEM). He wants to buy the August 42 call for $1.53. The trade breaks even at $43.53 or 0.42 percent above the current strike price....

China reported better-than-expected Q2 GDP growth of 6.9 percent on Monday, slightly topping consensus analyst expectations of 6.8 percent growth. However, language from a major meeting on economic policy has investors worried that China may soon begin tightening its financial regulations. After...

Oppenheimer entered the exchange traded funds industry via its acquisition of RevenueShares, a purveyor of revenue-weighted ETFs and Oppenheimer is continuing to build out that revenue-weighted lineup. Last week, the fund issuer added three new revenue-weighted ETFs to its roster. The new...

U.S. stocks have been performing well under the "Trump rally" but not as well as many stock markets outside of the U.S. Consider the fact that the S&P 500 index and its corresponding exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) is up 8.1 percent since the start of 2017. By most...

KraneShares, the exchange-traded-funds provider known for its unique lineup of China-focused funds, including the popular KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF (NASDAQ: KWEB), sold a majority stake in itself to China Investment Capital Corporation, a Chinese investment bank. CICC trades on the Hong...

A few days ago, Agecroft Partners founder and CEO Don Steinbrugge wrote an article titled “Why There's A Big Opportunity In Asia-Focused Hedge Funds.” Asia-based, Asia-focused hedge funds offer great opportunities for investors nowadays; Steinbrugge told Benzinga in a follow-up...

As has been widely reported, exchange-traded funds are on breakneck asset-gathering pace to start 2017. With the first half of the year in the books, data indicate ETFs added almost $250 billion in new assets in the January through June period. To put that total in perspective, 2016 was a record...

The iShares MSCI Philippines ETF (NYSE: EPHE) is higher by 11 percent year-to-date. While that lags the 18 percent returned by the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, EPHE's 2017 showing is still solid when considering the controversy Philippine equities have had to contend with. For political buffs...

Helped in part by the disappointing dollar, some emerging-market currencies have been solid performers this year, providing support for bonds denominated in those currencies. For example, the Market Vectors Emerging Mkts Local ETF (NYSE: EMLC) is up 8 percent year to date compared to a gain of less...

First Trust, one of the largest issuers of smart beta exchange-traded funds, last week introduced six ETFs based on the Nasdaq Riskalyze indexes. Those benchmarks “are designed to provide diversified, value-added exposure to broad equity market categories. The indexes seek to outperform their...

The Emerging Markets Internet & Ecommerce ETF (NYSE: EMQQ) is up nearly 40 percent year to date, a performance that puts the exchange-traded fund ahead of the MSCI Emerging Markets by a better than 2-to-1 margin. Engaging With EMQQ EMQQ's components “must derive their profits from e-...