iShares launches French equity ETF
In a bid to take advantage of growing interest in single-country ETFs, the Blackrock passive arm has launched its eighth such product, tracking the MSCI France index.
In a bid to take advantage of growing interest in single-country ETFs, the Blackrock passive arm has launched its eighth such product, tracking the MSCI France index.
MSCIs recent decision to remove South Korea and Taiwan from its review list and exclude Chinas A-shares from its EM index raises a few questions about how we should be thinking about emerging markets.
According to MSCI the two countries have been removed from the review list for reclassification as developed markets because of an absence of progress on outstanding areas of concern.
UAE and Qatar will only see modest investment initially after being reclassified as emerging markets, says a leading asset manager.
The MSCI indices of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are to be upgraded to emerging market status from May next year.
Sarasin and Partners has launched an emerging markets fund offering equal exposure across 19 of the 21 economies in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.
Syz & Co’s new emerging markets fund has been designed around an index that avoids the usual reliance on the largest countries by cap size of those that follow the MSCI EM index.
Amundi ETF has added two to its London-listed product range.
MSCI has decided not to upgrade the indices of the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.