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iShares Unveils China A-Shares Sector ETFs
November 19, 2009 12:38 am
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iShares launched this week the first set of sector-focused China A-Shares exchange-traded funds. They will be listed in Hong Kong.
The funds, which will track a host of indexes linked to the CSI 300 Index, include energy, financials, infrastructure and materials as well as a feeder fund. They are:
The funds will provide investors with targeted sector exposure in China by investing in China A-Share Access Products (CAAPs), which are derivative instruments linked to an A-Share or the index issued by a third party, known as the CAAP issuer. Exposure to each CAAP issuer is limited to 10 percent of net asset value of each fund. The new sector-focused funds will join the iShares FTSE/Xinhua A50 China Index ETF (stock code:2823), which tracks the 50 largest publicly traded Chinese companies, all of which are listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Launched in 2004, the A50 fund is hugely popular in Asia and has a heavy focus on financials, with the sector representing more than 61 percent of the portfolio. Year-to-date returns have exceeded 68 percent. All together, iShares’ lineup of China-linked ETFs now include 11 funds listed globally and 7 Hong Kong-based. You can read the company’s release here. |
Inside ETFs: A Reality Check
The Inside ETFs conference last month was a great opportunity for an ETF analyst like me to escape my ivory tower.Summing Sector SPDRS = SPY?
You’d think owning the nine sector SPDRs in proportion to their weightings in the S&P 500 is a way to recreate SPY. But you’d be wrong.
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