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☆ A China ‘spending boom?’ Your guide to emerging market investing in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Fred Imbert | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

"We're going to have a spending boom in China, at least in the first half of the year," said Mehran Nakhjavani, emerging market strategist at MRB Partners. How to play emerging markets in 2023 Regardless, there are several ways for investors to get exposure to emerging markets. Perhaps the easiest way is by investing in the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM). Another vehicle through which to play emerging markets is the First Trust Emerging Markets Small Cap AlphaDex ETF (FEMS) . The fund is the best-performing emerging markets ETF this year, according to Morningstar, with a year-to-date return of just over 1%.

☆ Assessing China: What political unrest means for ETF investors
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Kevin Schmidt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Global markets pulled back earlier this week after protests across China erupted over the country's zero-Covid policy. And with the SPDR S&P China ETF (GXC) down 30% this year, there's a growing debate on whether China makes a good investment now given the political risks. "Where value stocks are international stocks right now, value stocks are Chinese equities. On the flip side, China shares the U.S., like KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF (KWEB) and iShares MSCI China ETF (MCHI) , have started to move higher and Monday and continued to log gains. Adding context to the notion that China has underperformed, Ahern said that only 2% of the MSCI China Index was composed of tech decade ago.

☆ Chile has outperformed other emerging markets and the S&P 500 this year. Here's how
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Sarah Min | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Stocks in Chile are also outperforming the broader emerging markets. The iShares MSCI Emerging Market ETF (EEM) is down more than 28% for the year. Apart from the iShares MSCI Chile ETF, which helps investors gain exposure to the total addressable market, Chile makes up just a small part of other funds. The country comprises just 0.2% of the Morningstar global markets index, for example, and only about 0.6% of its emerging markets index. For macro investors, Chile is one of the interesting countries in the emerging market universe to deploy, according to BCA Research's Budaghyan.

☆ Here are some active advantages for the long-term ETF investor
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Kevin Schmidt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Mid-Year 2022" report, highlighting the state of active management and how it performs against their benchmark. Despite this being the best year so far, the report found that 51% of large-cap active fund managers are underperforming. And that is why active management is so hard." While active management might be better suited for laborious strategies like playing the bond market, the lines between active and passive are becoming more blurred. Those choices are informed by emotion, and that is something that we battle a lot"On the topic of indexed funds, Colas also advised to not take active management for granted.

☆ A look at the life of Steve Jobs' youngest daughter, Eve, who has been called a 'firecracker' and recently mocked Apple's iPhone 14
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-10 | by ( Áine Cain | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

"It took me a long time to figure out how to balance friends, school, and riding, but through the years I figured out the best way to make it all work is to prioritize what is most important to you," Jobs said in a 2016 interview with Upper Echelon Academy. Shutterstock Rex for EEMSource: Upper Echelon Academy

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