NGE News and Press, Global X MSCI Nigeria From 05/31/21

Nigerian equities are not especially exciting from a U.S. investor's perspective. NGE is a fund that enables U.S. investors to access the Nigerian equity market, but this market is nevertheless undeveloped. With only 20 holdings (little diversification), and with higher local "ris...

The US-based S&P 500 outperformed broad international equity markets in Q1, returning 6.17% versus 4.57% for the MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI). Emerging markets fared worse with only 2.29% growth, which seems to reflect the slower vaccination rollout within the developing wo...

Last year was eventful on many levels. From a market perspective, the main factor that stands out is of course COVID-19 and how it caused a collapse in the demand for oil, and subsequently, oil prices. While the GCC region was able to reopen its economy earlier than some others, it di...

NGE is an ETF that is denominated in U.S. dollars, and invests in 20 listed Nigerian equities. The fund provides U.S. investors with the unique ability to gain direct exposure to Nigeria. Since Nigeria is not the most obvious place to invest, it is worth evaluating whether or not ...

Rising sovereign debt levels and higher unemployment are among the key challenges that policymakers in frontier markets would have to monitor and address. Some frontier markets have also underperformed emerging markets this year due to concerns about the physical health care infrastructur...

The concept of a "demographic dividend" is well-established in academic research. But the flip side of a demographic dividend is what the United States and virtually all other developed nations are beginning to experience. Unfortunately, COVID-19 probably made the situation worse ...

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The weak dollar and booming risk appetite in the wake of the U.S. presidential election is adding a tailwind for some emerging markets ETFs that have trailed during the year.Country ETFs for Thailand (THD), Malaysia (EWM), Hong Kong (EWH), Nigeria (NGE), and Chile (ECH) were the biggest gaine...

Following the continued rally in US markets on news of a stimulus package and support from the Fed, investors began looking towards international markets for greater returns. The Global X MSCI Argentina ETF was the best performing single-country ETF within the International Access Sui...

As one of the largest economies in the continent with the greatest demographic potential over the next 30 years, I am still somewhat surprised that there is only one US-listed ETF tracking the Nigerian equity market. I am also somewhat surprised that given the very high expense ratio and "mono...