Hi! In this week’s ETF Wrap, you’ll get see how international stocks, including in emerging markets, stack up against U.S. equities in the third quarter.
The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY is also heading for potentially its first quarterly drop since the same period, with a drop of 3.3% so far in the third quarter. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF EEM is down 4.2% so far this quarter, trailing the S&P 500 index SPX, while faring a bit better than developed market equities in Europe, Australia and the Far East as tracked by iShares MSCI EAFE ETF EFA, according to FactSet data on Thursday afternoon.
While investors’ expectations for the country were “really high coming into this year” because of the post-pandemic reopening of its economy, there’s now concern over slowing economic growth there, she said.China is “such a big part of the EM index” that some investors may want to separate it out from their emerging-market exposure, said Akullian. One way to do that is through the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF EMXC, which is down 3.9% so far this quarter.
Measuring freedom Tolle said that she is personally “bullish” on India as a result of its demographics and described the population as highly educated, but also has conflicting feelings about the country when viewed through a lens of freedom. From that investing perspective, India has been “borderline” in the past in terms of potentially making the grade for her Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF.