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First Trust Advisors L.P. (“FTA”) announced today that the reorganizations of First Trust Australia AlphaDEX ® Fund (NYSE Arca: FAUS), First Trust Canada AlphaDEX ® Fund (Nasdaq: FCAN), First Trust Hong Kong AlphaDEX ® Fund (Nasdaq: FHK), and Fir...

First Trust Advisors L.P. (“FTA”) announced today that, subject to the satisfaction of certain customary closing conditions, the reorganization of First Trust Australia AlphaDEX ® Fund (NYSE Arca: FAUS), First Trust Canada AlphaDEX ® Fund (Nasdaq: FCAN), ...

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...

First Trust Advisors L.P. (“FTA”) announced today that shareholders of First Trust Australia AlphaDEX ® Fund (NYSE Arca: FAUS), First Trust Canada AlphaDEX ® Fund (Nasdaq: FCAN), First Trust Hong Kong AlphaDEX ® Fund (Nasdaq: FHK), and First Trust South Korea A...

First appeared as Policy Brief PB-20/70, Policy Center for the New South The “middle-income trap” has captured many developing countries: they succeeded in evolving from low per capita income levels, but then appeared to stall, losing momentum along the route toward the...

By Chetan Sehgal, CFA, Senior Managing Director, Director of Portfolio Management, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity, and Andrew Ness, ASIP, Portfolio Manager Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity Our emerging markets equity team has often emphasized how emerging markets have...

By Christopher Vass, senior product manager From the beginning of February through March 23, the Korean won depreciated more than 9% versus the US dollar as South Korea was one of the countries with highest confirmed COVID cases outside of China. At the same time, the equity market was exp...

Achievements in successful export industries, which need highly skilled people, can create an area as flourishing as South Korea. - Stef Wertheimer Last week, on the Lead-Lag report , I had suggested that South Korea may likely end up as one of the countries that emerge in decent shape fr...

North Korea has blown up a liaison office shared with South Korea - just north of the tense Korean border - following weeks of threats to end a détente. More news on: iShares MSCI India Index ETF, iShares MSCI South Korea Capped ETF, WisdomTree India Earnings ETF, , Global news and ...

South Korean military and intelligence authorities indicate that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is handling state affairs normally, according to Yonhap. More news on: iShares MSCI South Korea Capped ETF, Direxion Daily South Korea Bull 3x Shares ETF, Korea Fund, Global news and forex, N...