I found this article from Bloomberg with news of the latest filing dated March 31, 2009 but no link to the actual 13f. Shockingly, I was able to find it here and you can compare it to the previous filing from December 31, 2008 here.

The Bloomberg article notes that HMC increased its exposure to China, Brazil and Mexico. Mexico is odd as it seems as though Mexico has become unpopular due to declines in production from the Cantarell Field. From the March low, iShares Mexico (EWW) is up about the same as iShares Emerging (EEM) but EWW was a drag for the first quarter.

Holy fund closings. We've had the odd shuttering of a fund in the past but there went 11. Matt Hougan has written a nice little article on it, and he talked to Christian Magoon about it. Could this be the opening of the gate for many future similar closings? Goodness knows traditional funds have been doing it in large numbers for many years (hence the dreaded survivorship bias in many fund studies). Funds are often incubated and then merged or shuttered depending on their asset and returns performance.

I believe I'm write that this is the largest ETF fund closing in history - I think that Deutsche Bank's 8 Country Baskets (caskets if you will) would come in second. Greg Newton mentions them in his fun review of DBC when that was launched:

In a surprising move, Claymore Securities announced Friday that it would liquidate 11 of its least-popular ETFs.

The last day of trading for the funds will be February 19. On February 28, shareholders of record will receive cash payments for the full value of the funds. Any capital gains or losses from the portfolio will be distributed as well.

Many investors like to invest in equity ETFs with high dividend yields to get income while spreading risk across a number of stocks. We recently screened our list of over 500 ETFs to find the ones with the highest yields. Below we highlight our results.

As shown, REM, DFE, TTH, PGF and KRE have the highest 12-month dividend yields of the ETFs we track. Most of the stocks on the list are US equity ETFs, however, there are a number of high-yielding international equity ETFs as well. DFE, EEW, CVY, DNH, EPP, EWI and EWA all track non-US equity indices.

All-World, and All-World Ex-US
iShares MSCI ACWI (All Country World Index) Index Fund ETF (ACWI)
SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF (CWI)
SPDR S&P International Small Cap ETF (GWX)
The SPDR S&P World ex-US ETF (GWL)
Vanguard All-World Ex-US ETF (VEU)
NETS FTSE CNBC Global 300 Index Fund (MYG)

Multi-Region Developed Market ETFs
BLDRS Developed Markets 100 ADR Index Fund (ADRD)
Claymore/Robeco Developed International Equity ETF (EEN)
Claymore/Robeco Developed World Equity ETF (EEW)
iShares S&P Global 100 Index Fund (IOO)
iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund (EFA)
iShares FTSE Developed Small Cap ex-North America Index Fund (IFSM)
PowerShares FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Portfolio (PXF)
PowerShares FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid Portfolio (PDN)
RevenueShares ADR Fund ETF (RTR)
Vanguard Europe Pacific ETF (VEA)

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