EWT News and Press, iShares Inc MSCI Taiwan From 11/21/20

The United States and Taiwan signed an agreement to establish annual economic talks after concluding talks in Washington.The future discussions will alternate between the U.S. and Taipei, with strategic cooperation on the semiconductor industry established as a mutual priority. Further c...

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The top five performing ETFs so far this year have one thing in common: They seem to be fairing relatively well with the Covid crisis. The pandemic has dominated markets all year, of course. On Monday, U.S. stocks took a dive as cases in the country continued to surge higher. While the U.S. a...

Disaggregating international exposure allows investors to assign a different weight to specific countries relative to their respective weighting within a broad market-cap weighted index. Interestingly, the majority of the countries we anticipate performing well are in Asia, notably So...

By Bill Witherell, Ph.D. Consider a place that has had only 476 Covid-19 cases and just seven deaths. This sounds like a rural town in the US with a small population and good access to medical care. Actually, it is Taiwan, a small country in Asia with a very dense population of 23.6 millio...

ETF Overview Back in the summer of 2019, I have written an article discussing about iShares MSCI Taiwan Capped ETF ( EWT ). Since it has been nearly 1 years now, it is time for me to revisit this ETF and provide my updated view. The fund tracks the investment result of the MSCI Taiwan Inde...

ETF Overview The Invesco India ETF (PIN) focuses on large-cap and giant-cap stocks in India. The ETF tracks the FTSE India Quality and Yield Select Index. The biggest challenge to investors who want to invest in India right now is the outbreak of COVID-19 that will continue to drag the econo...

The lethal combination of a viral and financial crisis has no doubt taken a heavy toll on emerging markets, which saw their export-driven economies and currencies decimated by a halted global economy and safe-haven flows into the U.S. dollar respectively. Not to mention certain developing coun...

In chapter 3 of Peter Lynch's 1994 book Beating The Street , where he describes different types of funds, he writes "Many closed-end funds are more popularly known as country funds." Before many of the first single-country tracking exchange-traded funds (ETFs) launched in 1996, the easies...

Not Panicking But Not Pretending Either Source : Local governments/Johns Hopkins University. Last update: March 21, 2020 We don't need to remind anyone that global governments have thrown spears through the hearts of their respective economies. The driver of this behavior is the sprea...