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  • Seeking High-Alpha, Low-Beta Countries In The Investment Universe: Part I by Suna Reyent
    A year ago, Seeking Alpha published a piece of mine entitled “Calculating Country Risk Observed By Betas”. Since equity markets tend to go up and down in a synchronous fashion with the world markets, owning a country risk itself means owning a piece of the general “market... More »
    December 13, 2009 • EPI, CEE, ECH
  • The Meaning of Dubai's Financial Crisis for Emerging Markets by Chip Krakoff
    It must be fun to spark a world financial panic and then go on a five-day vacation. By now everyone knows that on Wednesday of last week, right before the Muslim world shut down for the Eid-al-Adha festival, Dubai World, the flagship investment company owned by the Government of Dubai and/or... More »
    November 30, 2009 • AFK, TRAMX, LETRX
  • Best and Worst International ETFs in 2009 by Moby Waller
    International ETFs have exploded in popularity, largely due to the fact that they make it relatively easy for an individual investor to trade a singe focused country or region.  Remember, however, that ETFs differ from each other, sometimes in huge ways, so be sure to investigate the... More »
    November 6, 2009 • RSX, EWZ, WPI
  • Sick of BRIC ETFs? Part 2 by Don Dion
    In the quest to seek out the newest emerging markets, investors have been snapping up shares of exchange-traded funds that focus on individual countries like Russia, Vietnam, Thailand, Turkey and South Korea. Rather than sticking with traditional "BRIC" ETFs, which…READ MORE More »
    September 16, 2009 • RSX, VNM, THD
  • Turkey Leads The Way! by Jeff Diercks
    The iShares MSCI Turkey Investible Fund Index (TUR) continues to lead the way in our relative performance country ETF models.  Austria, Sweden, Thailand and Brazil continue to score well in this week's review.As you can see, below, TUR broke out on Thursday and extended its gains in... More »
    August 23, 2009 • TUR, EWD, EWO
  • Trend Condition of Country Funds by Richard Shaw
    There were some substantial price moves today for many country and region funds.  How do they look now relative to their 200-day simple moving averages? The chart below shows the ratio of the price to the 200-day average, and the 100-day average to the 200-day average, for 35 country and... More »
    August 17, 2009 • VT, EFA, VWO
  • Updated: Individual Country ETFs Performance by Scott's Investments
    no disclosuresBelow is the data for the individual country ETF momentum and 200 day moving averages. Note that all country ETFs are above their 200 day moving average. The top 5 based on the sum of the 3-6-12 month returns are below--3 of the top ETFs are China related so I put the second and... More »
    August 3, 2009 • ECH, EIS, EWA
  • Individual Country ETF Momentum and Trend Update for August by Scott's Investments
    Below is the data for the individual country ETF momentum and 200 day moving averages. One could purchase the top performing ETFs based on momentum as judged by the 3-6-12 returns or just the 6 month returns.  Another twist an investor could add would be to purchase the underlying... More »
    August 2, 2009 • ECH, EIS, EWA
  • Seeking safety and alpha at the same time by Gary Griswold
    High risk and high return are generally understood to go together, but are there exceptions?  Are there ways to find a higher return with a lower risk?  The strategy described here is to select countries based upon a positive current account as a percentage of the countries own... More »
    June 30, 2009 • EWS, EWM, EWT
  • BRIC to BIC to BICI? by Richard Shaw
    Goldman Sachs coined “BRIC” for Brazil, Russia, India and China.  Some commentators have recently suggested that Russia’s stocks are too volatile, economy too fragile and politics too hostile to capital, and that maybe “BIC” is more attractive.  Based on... More »
    June 25, 2009 • SPY, VTI, IWV

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