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Michael Johnston: When asked to identify the economies that are posting the most substantial GDP expansion in the current environment, many investors would quickly respond with China, India, and other well known emerging markets. Read more…
Russ Koesterich: In my opinion, investors should consider minimizing their exposure to emerging markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, otherwise known as EMEA. Read more…
Kevin Kerr: Throughout 2011 the markets have been on an incredibly wild ride for investors. And many traders are left scratching their heads as to what to do next in these volatile times. It’s precisely market conditions like these that offer huge opportunities for those who are willing and able to face the fear Read more…
The latest round of new product launches has pushed the total for the ETF total to 1,300, close to twice the number of products trading just a couple of years ago. But if the activity behind the scenes is any indication, the growth spurt is far from over. Multiple issuers continue to stuff the product Read more…
The African middle class’ sheer size – about 313 million people – rivals that of China and India. And by 2015, new African consumers alone will equal all of Brazil’s today. The African Development Bank (ADB) now records one in three Africans as middle class, a group it defines as people who spend $2 to $20 a day. A record number of Africans now own houses and cars, they use the internet and send their Read more…
As hundreds of billions of dollars have flowed into exchange-traded products in recent years, international equity ETFs have been a particularly popular destination. As investors have shed Read more…
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New York-based asset manager Van Eck Global announced today that, effective May 1, 2011, expense caps were reduced on the following Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) in its Market Vectors family: Market Vectors Africa Index ETF (NYSE:AFK), Market Vectors Brazil Small-Cap ETF Read more…
2010 was a good year for the ETF industry to say the least, with US assets breaching the $1 trillion mark and new product launches ramping up as the year came to a close, with a flood of freshly Read more…
Mention “emerging markets” to the average investor on the street and chances are, you’ll get a flurry of responses that include Brazil, Russia, India, or China – the BRIC nations. That’s why we at Read more…
As the world seeks natural resources and economic growth, Africa’s economy may continue to witness expansion enabling the Market Vectors Africa Index (NYSE:AFK) and the SPDR S&P Read more…
In the half century since the colonial powers packed up and went home, Africa hasn’t done too well. Governments came and went with varying degrees of nationalism, socialism and capitalism. But they never really produced anything to brag about, and overall, nothing changed. Finally though, the Read more…
Van Eck, the issuer behind several country-specific emerging and frontier market ETFs, announced today the latest addition to its product lineup. The Market Vectors Colombia ETF (NYSE:COLX) 
Global X rolled out the latest addition to its rapidly-expanding ETF lineup on Thursday, launching the FTSE ASEAN 40 ETF (NYSE:ASEA). 
If you turned on your TV in the last week or so, you almost certainly saw coverage of the protests in Egypt. Almost overnight, the media narrative moved from Washington to Cairo. 
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