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ETFs For Dividend Growth Investors
Roger F. Goodrich • Tue, Apr 23 • 28 Comments
Reform Momentum In Mexico Could Be Positive For This ETF
Morningstar • Sun, Mar 24 • 1 Comment
Fidelity Increases Commission-Free ETF Count to 66
Ron Rowland • Mon, Mar 18 • 2 Comments
Population Overload: Global Growth Trends And Investing
Derrik Lattig • Fri, Mar 15 • 7 Comments
Emerging Markets: In Search Of Sustainable Growth For The Next Decade
Investment Biker • Fri, Feb 22 • 3 Comments
Slicing Up The Global Equity Market Pie
James Picerno • Mon, Feb 4 • 1 Comment
Market Timing: A Strategy Worth 25% A Year For A Decade (Part 3)
Ypa Finance • Mon, Jan 28 • 9 Comments
The World Bank's IFC Investment Arm In Emerging And Frontier Markets: What We Can Learn
Jon Springer • Thu, Jan 24 • 20 Comments
It's Not What Happens That Matters
William Smead • Wed, Jan 16 • 12 Comments
Caiman Valores Positions For 2013: Colombia, Chile Offer Best Upside In Latin America
Caiman Valores • Fri, Jan 4 • 49 Comments
5 Investment Recommendations From PIMCO's Bill Gross
Learn Bonds • Sun, Dec 23, 2012 • 27 Comments
Fund Flows To Emerging Markets: Threat Or Opportunity?
Emerging Money • Tue, Dec 18, 2012 • 1 Comment
Jeff Gundlach: 3 Ways To Profit From The Coming Financial Catastrophe
Learn Bonds • Sun, Dec 16, 2012 • 8 Comments
Ratio Analysis Shows International Stocks' Strength
Brian Dightman • Fri, Dec 7, 2012
Analysis: The Chilean Economy In 2012
Emerging Money • Wed, Nov 7, 2012
Why Emerging Markets Will Become A Core Of Global Tactical Allocation
Stock Whiz • Mon, Sep 24, 2012 • 3 Comments
Small-Cap ETFs: Seeking Better Returns, Not Diversification
Jim Pyke • Mon, Aug 27, 2012 • 4 Comments
Investing For Growth In An Age Of Deleveraging
Stock Whiz • Mon, Aug 20, 2012 • 1 Comment
A Dull Week Ends Camped
David Fry • Sun, Aug 12, 2012 • 4 Comments
Global Headwinds Bite Deeper In Latin America As Colombia Orders First Rate Cut In 2 Years
Caiman Valores • Fri, Aug 3, 2012 • 12 Comments

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Latin America: A Bet On China's Rise
Morningstar • Wed, Apr 11, 2012 • 4 Comments
Latin America: Education as an Economic Indicator
Elliott R. Morss • Sun, Dec 26, 2010 • 10 Comments
Thoughts on an Obscenely Bullish Chart
Jeff Pierce • Mon, Nov 8, 2010 • 2 Comments
Friday’s ETF to Watch: iShares Latin America 40
Jared Cummans • Fri, Oct 15, 2010 • 1 Comment
Argentina, Venezuela: South America's 700lb Gorillas
The Wild Hog • Wed, Jun 16, 2010 • 6 Comments
New Market Vectors ETF Covers Two Increasingly Popular Niches: Emerging Markets and Smallcaps
Invest With An Edge • Wed, Apr 7, 2010 • 1 Comment
Ominous Signs for Argentina's Sovereign Debt
Kevin Mulhern • Mon, Jan 11, 2010 • 5 Comments
Venezuela: How to Ruin an Economy
Walter Kurtz • Sun, Sep 27, 2009 • 9 Comments
Brazilian Government Debt Upgrade Good News for Latin American ETFs
Vinny Catalano • Fri, May 2, 2008
Latin America: Top Mutual Fund Beaten By Benchmark ETF
Robert Westwood • Thu, May 1, 2008 • 2 Comments
Latin American ETFs Hit Record Highs
Carl T. Delfeld • Wed, May 23, 2007
Facts Will Make You Money: Got Latin America?
Mark Turner • Fri, Mar 9, 2007 • 1 Comment
Latin American ETF Falling On News (ETF: ILF)
David Fry • Tue, Dec 20, 2005
iShares Latin America 40 Index ETF Benefits from Commodities Demand (ILF)
David Fry • Thu, Sep 22, 2005
Time to Take Money Out of The Latin America ETF (ILF)?
David Fry • Tue, Aug 23, 2005

ETFs For Dividend Growth Investors
Roger F. Goodrich • Tue, Apr 23 • 28 Comments
Reform Momentum In Mexico Could Be Positive For This ETF
Morningstar • Sun, Mar 24 • 1 Comment
Fidelity Increases Commission-Free ETF Count to 66
Ron Rowland • Mon, Mar 18 • 2 Comments
Population Overload: Global Growth Trends And Investing
Derrik Lattig • Fri, Mar 15 • 7 Comments
Emerging Markets: In Search Of Sustainable Growth For The Next Decade
Investment Biker • Fri, Feb 22 • 3 Comments
Slicing Up The Global Equity Market Pie
James Picerno • Mon, Feb 4 • 1 Comment
Market Timing: A Strategy Worth 25% A Year For A Decade (Part 3)
Ypa Finance • Mon, Jan 28 • 9 Comments
The World Bank's IFC Investment Arm In Emerging And Frontier Markets: What We Can Learn
Jon Springer • Thu, Jan 24 • 20 Comments
It's Not What Happens That Matters
William Smead • Wed, Jan 16 • 12 Comments
Caiman Valores Positions For 2013: Colombia, Chile Offer Best Upside In Latin America
Caiman Valores • Fri, Jan 4 • 49 Comments
5 Investment Recommendations From PIMCO's Bill Gross
Learn Bonds • Sun, Dec 23, 2012 • 27 Comments
Fund Flows To Emerging Markets: Threat Or Opportunity?
Emerging Money • Tue, Dec 18, 2012 • 1 Comment
Jeff Gundlach: 3 Ways To Profit From The Coming Financial Catastrophe
Learn Bonds • Sun, Dec 16, 2012 • 8 Comments
Ratio Analysis Shows International Stocks' Strength
Brian Dightman • Fri, Dec 7, 2012
Analysis: The Chilean Economy In 2012
Emerging Money • Wed, Nov 7, 2012
Why Emerging Markets Will Become A Core Of Global Tactical Allocation
Stock Whiz • Mon, Sep 24, 2012 • 3 Comments
Small-Cap ETFs: Seeking Better Returns, Not Diversification
Jim Pyke • Mon, Aug 27, 2012 • 4 Comments
Investing For Growth In An Age Of Deleveraging
Stock Whiz • Mon, Aug 20, 2012 • 1 Comment
A Dull Week Ends Camped
David Fry • Sun, Aug 12, 2012 • 4 Comments
Global Headwinds Bite Deeper In Latin America As Colombia Orders First Rate Cut In 2 Years
Caiman Valores • Fri, Aug 3, 2012 • 12 Comments

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Emerging Markets Report: Latin America’s New Tigers forge ahead

at MarketWatch.com (Jul 25, 2012)
Michael Molinski's Emerging Latin America: The best Latin American mutual funds and ETFs

at MarketWatch.com (May 2, 2012)
A Bearish Outlook for Emerging Market Funds

at CNBC.com (Apr 10, 2012)
Michael Molinski's Emerging Latin America: Eight tips for investing in Latin America

at MarketWatch.com (Mar 7, 2012)
Michael Molinski's Emerging Latin America: Assessing Latin risk: A year of living dangerously

at MarketWatch.com (Jan 10, 2012)
How to profit from Latin American small caps

at MarketWatch.com (Nov 7, 2011)
Latin American Markets: Mexico, Brazil stocks dive as global outlook dims

at MarketWatch.com (Sep 22, 2011)
Video: Multinationals Shifting from Asia to Latin America

at MarketWatch.com (Jul 19, 2011)
Latin American Markets: Mexico stocks reduce losses after Fed decision

at MarketWatch.com (Aug 10, 2010)
Latin American Markets: Brazil's stock index slide 1.8%

at MarketWatch.com (Jul 16, 2010)
Latin American Markets: Brazilian stocks recoup losses

at MarketWatch.com (Jul 15, 2010)
Latin American Markets: Brazil index falls on dim U.S. outlook

at MarketWatch.com (Jul 14, 2010)
Global Scorecard: Q2 '10 Winners & Losers

at CNBC.com (Jun 30, 2010)
Latin American Markets: Brazil stocks hit by global recovery fears

at MarketWatch.com (Jun 29, 2010)
Analyst Watch: BP Hearing, Natural Resources

at CNBC.com (Jun 17, 2010)

ILF vs. ETF Alternatives

ILF Description

The iShares S&P Latin America 40 Index Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of companies in the Mexican and South American equity markets as represented by the Standard & Poor's Latin America 40 Index.
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Key Info

In Your Portfolio: A Guide to International Equity ETFs
Asset Class Performance: Emerging Markets, Global & Regions

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Friday, May 3, 4:55 PM The week's ETF movers - Gainers: XLK +3.9%. QQQ +3.7%. EPI +3.6%. EWY +3.2%. ILF +3.1%.
ETF Losers: GAZ -4.6%. UNG -4.2%. VXX -2.8%. GDXJ -2.4%. TLT -2.0%. Comment! [On the Move]
Monday, March 18, 4:57 AM Ron Rowland offers additional highlights on the recently expanded lineup of commission-free ETFs over at Fidelity including the following caveat: Funds not held for 30 days by retail investors or 60 days by RIAs using Fidelity as a custodian will be subject to a $7.95 per-trade commission. Some RIAs have complained that the longer holding period directed at them is unfair. Rowland spells out the full list of affected ETFs here. Comment!
Tuesday, February 12, 3:44 PM Markets make opinons, they say, and Brazil's (EWZ) poor performance has managers pulling funds and talking about long-term troubles for the next great country. Money is instead chasing performance in Mexico (EWW), Peru (EPU), and Chile (ECH). A 10% move up in the Bovespa and it's our guess the prospects for Brazil among the adviser crowd will have improved. Comment! [Global & FX]
Wednesday, January 16, 2:52 PM Exposure to Brazil (EWZ), only better, the Latin American 40 ETF (ILF) also has a heavy weighting in Mexican giants like Carlos Slim's America Movil (AMX) and Wal-Mart Mexico (WMMVY.PK). The Mexican additions have allowed ILF a far-superior performance to the Brazil offering. 1 Comment [Global & FX]
Friday, December 28, 2012, 5:36 PM After-hours top gainers, as of 5:15 p.m.: UVXY +7.84%. TVIX +5.87%. VIIX +5.21%. VIXY +4.85%. VXX +4.37%.
After-hours top losers: ILF -6.47%. XIV -6.26%. SVXY -5.11%. TTI -2.97%. UPRO -2.41%. 2 Comments [On the Move]
Thursday, December 13, 2012, 12:04 PM Latin American stocks (ILF) have outperformed much of the developed world for most of the last decade, but that could be about to change. Using EFA as a proxy for developed markets, ex-North America, J.C. Parets sees a huge base and potential bottom formed in the EFA/ILF ratio. Bulls on beaten down spots like Japan and Europe may have reason to cheer in coming years. Comment! [Quick Ideas, Global & FX]
Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 2:53 AM If China grows "only" 7.5% this year, Latin America will likely feel the pain, as China has become one of the largest trading partners for many Lat.Am. countries and has helped open Asia as an export market. In Brazil, exports to China have increased more than forty fold since 2000, growth that is likely unsustainable as China slows. Comment! [Global & FX]
Thursday, January 19, 2012, 9:40 AM Defining overbought as being more than 5% above a 50-day moving average, Bespoke says 24% of tracked ETFs fit the bill. Leading the list is the homebuilders (XHB), more than 13% above its 50 day MA; Brazil (EWZ) leads the country ETFs, 8.2% above. A few more days of market gains and look for talk about the entire market being overbought. Comment! [Quick Ideas]
Thursday, May 12, 2011, 4:54 PM "In good times, everybody looks very handsome" says Nicolas Eyzaguirre of the IMF (formerly Chilean Fin Min), issuing a stern warning to Latin American countries to prepare for an inevitable economic shock. "We are much more prone to overspend in good times than other parts of the world." 3 Comments [Global & FX]
Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 5:30 PM Not only do emerging markets have to deal with slowing growth, rate hikes, and inflation, but their shares are not necessarily cheap. RBC points out the ratio of emerging market valuations to G7 valuations is at the highest level since right before it collapsed in the mid-90s. Comment! [Global & FX]
Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 4:13 PM The re-emergence of capital controls in Latin America has some worrying about a replay of the conditions that led to 1980s hyperinflation. Most countries run current account deficits, meaning they must borrow to buy dollars in order to hold down their currency, leaving them vulnerable if credit conditions worsen. Comment! [Global & FX]
Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 2:35 PM Latin American enjoys the commodity boom, but frets about contracting Dutch Disease. Resources account for 53% of exports vs. 40% a decade ago, as manufacturing shrinks. Policymakers try stay on top of the issue, holding down currencies, building savings, and investing with an eye towards long-term productivity. 1 Comment [Global & FX]
Friday, January 7, 2011, 5:30 PM The risk of owning Argentinian bonds drops the most of any nation this week as beans in the teens boosts the economy of the world's 3rd largest soybean producer. “Soy prices improve domestic liquidity, improve taxes ... so it overall improves the ability to pay," says an analyst with RBS. Comment! [Global & FX]
Friday, December 31, 2010, 12:17 PM Peru, up 64%, is the strongest performer in a solid year for the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Mining and sugar companies make up nearly 70% of the capitalization of Peru's IGBVL index, pretty fair industries to own in 2010. 3 Comments [Global & FX]
Thursday, December 16, 2010, 3:41 PM "After all this money has flooded in ... it's hard to find fundamental value," says top-ranked international fund manager David Herro, speaking about emerging market equities. Herro has reduced emerging market stocks to 4% of his portfolio following their biggest rally in 16 years. 1 Comment [Global & FX]
Friday, March 5, 2010, 11:22 AM M&A activity in Latin America is off to its best start in a decade - and it's the only region showing in increase in transactions from the end of 2009. Recovery in Brazil and Mexico is spurring consolidation. (ETFs: ILF, GML) Comment!

Michael A. Gayed
October 5th interview I had making the case for Fall Melt-Up. http://on.wsj.com/nQe0Eo on SPY EWG IWM MDY EWZ ILF FXI, not TLT
10/26/11
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John Ward
International ETFs showing some life: EDC, BRF, FXI, IDX, ILF, EWM, EWY, EWA, EWC, FXA, THD, EWD...
3/31/11
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ETFdesk
WaysToPlay: `Buy the Correction' in Latin American Stock Markets, JPMorgan Chase Says http://bit.ly/ad1Hph $EWZ $BRF $GML $ILF $LBJ #ETF
5/24/10
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racser01
I'am investing in canadian + U.S. stocks and etf ( EWZ, ILF, FXI ) for best diversification.
5/5/10
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AlphaLoboTrading
ILF 45.45 (etf) - turn around, look for moves above 45.90 to enter longs, on monthly support, target retest 50.00
2/22/10
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ETFdesk
WaysToPlay: Roubini: Latin America Will Have Killer Growth In 2010 http://bit.ly/7Qt1Kd $GML $ILF $LDF #ETF #MKT
12/21/09
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Paul Harper
$ILF LatAm nations sign 20% trade tarriff drop : http://bit.ly/5K5rj0 #emv emerging markets
12/11/09
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Libby Gadsen
BTI C EEM ENS GE IGE ILF INTC JPM KO MCD MVIS NI NOK OPXT PM PXJ SQM V YAO. Anything that does not require the American consumer to go up.
11/19/09
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