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Thailand’s economy should keep recovering this year, as further easing of COVID-19 restrictions and the reopening of borders boost the country’s all-important tourism industry.


That should offset the negative effects of high commodity prices and the effect of China’s continuing zero-COVID policies on regional growth.


ISHARES MSCI THAILAND ETF, $70.59 (New York symbol THD; TSINetwork ETF Rating: Aggressive; Market cap: $323.3 million) tracks the performance of a broad basket of publicly listed Thai companies.


The ETF holds a portfolio of 132 stocks of which the top 10 make up 42% of the total assets....

The dividends paid by public corporations are normally a portion of net income or cash flow. This formula is followed by dividend-paying ETFs, but they also distribute trading profits and sometimes return investors’ capital as part of their unitholder distributions.


As an example, an ETF that invests in dividend-paying companies will receive dividend income from the stocks it holds....

Most successful investors hold a mix of stocks (or the ETFs that hold them)—and one key component of a well-diversified portfolio are growth stocks. Note that it’s very easy to confuse growth stocks with momentum stocks. Like growth stocks, momentum stocks often move up faster than market averages....

VANECK VECTORS SOCIAL SENTIMENT ETF $14.55 (New York symbol BUZZ) holds 75 stocks, each with at least a $5 billion market cap and generating social media attention.


The fund tracks the BUZZ NextGen AI U.S. Sentiment Leaders Index....

Telecommunications form an integral part of economic infrastructure. At the same time, strict licensing standards and high capital requirements result in considerable barriers to entry for any firms trying to enter the industry. That helps explain why top telecommunication companies—plus the firms that supply their equipment or use their services for streaming and so on—continue to offer attractive prospects in growing markets.


Below we take a look at two ETFs that hold companies involved in various aspects of the telecommunications industry....

A: VanEck Vectors Social Sentiment ETF, $14.54, symbol BUZZ on New York (Units outstanding: 4.7 million; Market cap: $67.6 million; www.vaneck.com), holds 75 stocks, each with a market cap of $5 billion or more; each also generates social media attention.

The fund tracks the BUZZ NextGen AI U.S....

A: Harvest Healthcare Leaders Income ETF, $7.74, symbol HHL on Toronto, (Units outstanding: 131.6 million; Market cap: $1.0 billion; www.harvestportfolios.com), holds a portfolio of 20 large-cap global healthcare companies....

INVESCO SOLAR ETF, $84.33, is a buy for aggressive investors. The ETF (New York symbol TAN; buy or sell through brokers) tracks solar-related companies (including technology firms and utilities) listed on global exchanges.


The fund’s top holdings are Enphase Energy (U.S.; home solar systems) at 12.7%; First Solar (China; solar panels), 9.3%; SolarEdge Technologies (Israel; solar-power batteries), 8.1%; Sunrun (U.S.; solar panels), 5.4%; GCL Technology (China; polysilicon), 4.9%; and Xinyi Solar (China; solar panels), 4.5%. The ETF charges a reasonable MER of 0.66%.


Renewable stocks have drifted down lately, after big runups last year on President Biden’s support for sun, wind and hydro power—plus strong investor interest in stocks that will gain from the push for global decarbonization....

Generally speaking, Canadians are blocked from buying mutual funds that are registered in the U.S. unless those funds are also registered with provincial securities commissions. (Moreover, some Canadian mutual funds are only available in a limited number of provinces.)


Investors in this country can, however, buy exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, listed on U.S....

High yields, especially in what is still a relatively low interest-rate environment, have lots of appeal for many income investors. But ETF investors should look beyond the historical distribution yield for any danger signs.


The managers of ETFs use various strategies to generate high yields for their unitholders....