ILF News and Press, iShares Latin America 40 From 07/22/23

2023-07-22 03:35:00 ET Summary Allocation and stock selection in Brazil and Georgia lead to fund outperformance in Q2 2023. The VanEck Emerging Markets Fund slightly outperformed the MSCI EM IMI Index on the QTD basis ending June 30, 2023 (+2.24% for Fund vs +1.62% for Index). ...

2023-07-20 12:28:48 ET Summary Equity markets have seen strong, double-digit capital gains this year, with emerging market equities being an exception with weak, inconsistent single-digit gains. Despite recent underperformance, emerging market equities offer investors cheap prices...

2023-07-17 11:10:00 ET Summary We favor emerging market to developed market assets on a brighter macro backdrop. We get granular and harness mega forces, per our playbook. U.S. bond yields slumped last week on softer CPI inflation data. We think still-tight labor markets will comp...

2023-06-24 00:20:00 ET Summary Latin American local currency debt faced challenges in 2022 including rising U.S. interest rates, reduced demand for commodities, political instability and persistent regional inflation. Surprisingly, the asset class has shown remarkable resilience s...

2023-06-18 10:31:30 ET Summary Emerging markets and commodities are showing strength amid a weak USD, which has a historical negative correlation with these sectors. Risk-on currencies like the Australian Dollar and Canadian Dollar have broken out against the USD, providing a supp...

2023-05-31 06:58:31 ET Summary The growth trigger remains the recovery of the U.S. and Chinese economies as major trading partners. Most of the fund's companies are from cyclical or slow-growth sectors (materials, energy, financials). Regulatory risks are also present. The con...

2023-05-16 12:16:00 ET Summary The dominance of the US stock market over its foreign counterparts has for years been taken as a sign of the new world order for global asset allocation that forever and always favors American shares. Part of the reason for the rebound in foreign mar...

2023-05-13 04:51:00 ET Summary Mexico, Latin America’s second-largest economy, will grow 1.7% this year, while Brazil’s GDP will inch up just 1.2%, according to estimates from the IMF. The Brazilian real, Colombian peso, Argentine peso and other Latin American curren...

2023-04-14 14:21:19 ET Summary Latin America 40 ETF is down over the last 6 months while most other areas are in the black. With high exposure to value and cyclical sectors, ILF may feature volatility in the coming months. With shares consolidating, I want to wait for further ...

2023-04-12 01:39:00 ET Summary We believe that beyond China, EMs offer an attractive and differentiated opportunity set - one which drove our launch of our EM ex China Growth strategy. Ex China, EMs have much more technology (particularly semiconductor and broad hardware), materia...