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A: iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF, $31.89, symbol EWU on New York (Units outstanding: 77.8 million; Market cap: $2.5 billion; www.ishares.com), is an ETF that invests in 109 large and mid-sized companies in the U.K.
The ETF’s top holdings are Royal Dutch Shell, HSBC Holdings, British American Tobacco plc, BP plc, GlaxoSmithKline plc, Diageo plc, AstraZeneca, Vodafone Group and Reckitt Benckiser Group.
iShares launched the ETF on March 12, 1996....
The ETF’s top holdings are Royal Dutch Shell, HSBC Holdings, British American Tobacco plc, BP plc, GlaxoSmithKline plc, Diageo plc, AstraZeneca, Vodafone Group and Reckitt Benckiser Group.
iShares launched the ETF on March 12, 1996....
CI Canadian Bond Fund | $ 31,286 |
CI Canadian Equity | $ 73,406 |
CI Corporate Bond | $ 37,783 |
iShares Cdn S&P/TSX60 | $ 22,640 |
iShares MSCI JAPAN ETF | $ 22,640 |
BCE Inc. | $ 7,592 |
SPDR S&P China ETF | $ 6,783 |
WestJet Airlines | $ 12,090 |
Cash | $ 3,489 |
TOTAL Investments | $ 217,710 |
A: We don’t generally recommend that investors hold mutual funds, mostly because of their higher fees.
In particular, we also don’t recommend bond funds: Bonds are unlikely to perform well over the next few years, if only because interest rates will likely hold steady or rise....
A: The Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-Canada Index ETF, $31.63, symbol VXC on Toronto (Units outstanding: 17.0 million; Market cap: $537.7 million; www.vanguardcanada.ca), aims to track the FTSE Global All Cap ex Canada China A Inclusion Index....
Dear safe-money investor:
We’ve selected our top picks for 2017—one stock, one real estate investment trust and one ETF. Each offers a particularly attractive combination of long-term growth prospects and a reasonable price.
We feel that investors will profit the most by holding a well-balanced portfolio of high-quality stocks and REITs—like our first two recommendations below.
If you want to supplement your individual stock holdings, then ETFs, like our third recommendation, provide a sound alternative.
BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA $77.89 (Toronto symbol BNS; Shares outstanding: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $94.0 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 3.8%, www.scotiabank.com) is the third largest of Canada’s five biggest banks.
In the three months ended October 31, 2016, the bank earned $1.9 billion, or $1.58 a share....
We’ve selected our top picks for 2017—one stock, one real estate investment trust and one ETF. Each offers a particularly attractive combination of long-term growth prospects and a reasonable price.
We feel that investors will profit the most by holding a well-balanced portfolio of high-quality stocks and REITs—like our first two recommendations below.
If you want to supplement your individual stock holdings, then ETFs, like our third recommendation, provide a sound alternative.
BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA $77.89 (Toronto symbol BNS; Shares outstanding: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $94.0 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 3.8%, www.scotiabank.com) is the third largest of Canada’s five biggest banks.
In the three months ended October 31, 2016, the bank earned $1.9 billion, or $1.58 a share....
We think conservative investors can hold up to 10% of their portfolios in foreign stocks. One way to do that is to buy carefully chosen exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that have an overseas focus.
The best ETFs continue to offer very low management fees and well-diversified, tax-efficient portfolios of highquality stocks.
Here’s a look at four international ETFs we see as buys, and two we feel you should hang on to:
ISHARES MSCI EMERGING MARKETS INDEX FUND $37.36 (New York symbol EEM; buy or sell through brokers) aims to track the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.
The fund’s geographic breakdown includes China, 26.1%; South Korea, 14.7%; Taiwan, 12.0%; India, 8.1%; Brazil, 8.0%; South Africa, 6.6%; Russia, 4.2%; Mexico, 3.4%; Indonesia, 2.5%; Malaysia, 2.5%; Thailand, 2.3%; and the Philippines, 1.2%.
Its top holdings are Samsung Electronics (South Korea), 4.1%; Tencent Holdings (China: Internet), 3.6%; Taiwan Semiconductor (computer chips), 3.5%; Alibaba Group (China: e-commerce), 2.7%; Naspers (South Africa: media and Internet), 1.7%; China Mobile, 1.7%; China Construction Bank, 1.5%; Baidu (China: Internet), 1.1%; Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, 1.1%; and Hon Hai Precision (Taiwan), 1.0%.
iShares launched the ETF on April 7, 2003....
The best ETFs continue to offer very low management fees and well-diversified, tax-efficient portfolios of highquality stocks.
Here’s a look at four international ETFs we see as buys, and two we feel you should hang on to:
ISHARES MSCI EMERGING MARKETS INDEX FUND $37.36 (New York symbol EEM; buy or sell through brokers) aims to track the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.
The fund’s geographic breakdown includes China, 26.1%; South Korea, 14.7%; Taiwan, 12.0%; India, 8.1%; Brazil, 8.0%; South Africa, 6.6%; Russia, 4.2%; Mexico, 3.4%; Indonesia, 2.5%; Malaysia, 2.5%; Thailand, 2.3%; and the Philippines, 1.2%.
Its top holdings are Samsung Electronics (South Korea), 4.1%; Tencent Holdings (China: Internet), 3.6%; Taiwan Semiconductor (computer chips), 3.5%; Alibaba Group (China: e-commerce), 2.7%; Naspers (South Africa: media and Internet), 1.7%; China Mobile, 1.7%; China Construction Bank, 1.5%; Baidu (China: Internet), 1.1%; Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, 1.1%; and Hon Hai Precision (Taiwan), 1.0%.
iShares launched the ETF on April 7, 2003....
MARKET VECTORS VIETNAM ETF $13.72 (New York symbol VNM; buy or sell through brokers) holds Vietnamese companies and foreign firms that get a significant share of their revenue from the Southeast Asian country.
The ETF’s top holdings are Vingroup (conglomerate), 7.8%; Vietnam Dairy Products, 7.4%; the Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, 7.0%; Masan Group (a food, resources and banking conglomerate), 6.8%; and Hao Phat Group (industrial conglomerate), 6.0%.
Investing in Vietnam still comes with aboveaverage political risk....
The ETF’s top holdings are Vingroup (conglomerate), 7.8%; Vietnam Dairy Products, 7.4%; the Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, 7.0%; Masan Group (a food, resources and banking conglomerate), 6.8%; and Hao Phat Group (industrial conglomerate), 6.0%.
Investing in Vietnam still comes with aboveaverage political risk....
ISHARES MSCI JAPAN INDEX FUND $50.84 (New York Exchange symbol EWJ; buy or sell through brokers; us.ishares.com) is an ETF that tries to match the return of the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Japan index.
The fund’s top holdings include Toyota, 5.2%; Mitsubishi UFJ Financial, 2.2%; KDDI Corp....
The fund’s top holdings include Toyota, 5.2%; Mitsubishi UFJ Financial, 2.2%; KDDI Corp....
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A: iShares S&P/TSX SmallCap Index ETF, $16.97, symbol XCS on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 8.3 million; Market cap: $140.9 million), holds the 200 stocks in the S&P/TSX SmallCap Index. That index is made up of the smaller companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange....
A: ProShares Ultra Gold ETF, $35.25, symbol UGL on New York (Units outstanding: 2.8 million; Market cap: $98.7 million; www.proshares.com), aims to move 200% in the same direction as the price of gold.
The fund relies on futures contracts and other derivatives to try to boost its returns on gold....
The fund relies on futures contracts and other derivatives to try to boost its returns on gold....