Country Constituents of MSCI Regions

Sometimes it’s difficult to remember which countries are in which MSCI regional index. To the extent that you don’t want to create unintended overlaps of country holdings in your portfolio, this reference table can help. It lists each country and each of the regional indices in which it is included:

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Some of the key funds that correspond to the labeled columns are:

World: VFWIX + VTSMX  or VFWIX + (IWM)

Developed Intl: VDMIX + (EWC) or (EFA) +(EWC)

Emerging Intl: VEIEX or (VWO) or (EEM)

Latin America: (ILF)

Far East ex. Japan: n/a

EAFE: VDMIX or (EFA)

EMU: (EZU)

Europe: VEURX

AsiaPacific: VPACX or (VPL)

Asia Pacific ex. Japan: (EPP)

Comments

[mangino:]

The EMU column doesn't have any X's in it.

2007 Aug 03 12:41 PM

[QVM Group:]

Looks like I loaded a version prior to the final version. I'll make the correction on my blog -- not sure what SeekingAlpha will do.

2007 Aug 03 10:05 PM

[mylittlebut...:]

Great Idea for an article - but aren't you missing many levels of analysis - such as PE ratios - you wouldn't expect a country growing twice as fast as another to have better stock market returns if its PE ratio is alreay 4 times more. The analysis doesn't seem to be much different than it would need to be for an individual stock. The increase is the country's earnings is only one thing to look at when estimating its likely appreciation.

2007 Aug 03 01:46 PM

[QVM Group:]

Not sure what you are talking about. This article does not analyze anything. It just tells you which countries are in which index.

2007 Aug 03 10:06 PM