It seems like every week, a new country has an ETF to its name. Last week I had taken a quick look into the difference between investing in a country’s currency or its stock market and while doing that I had the opportunity to take a look at all of the single country ETF’s that are currently traded on US markets. Then, today I noticed that Market Vectors confirmed a new ETF on Egypt would soon be trading, EGPT.
So I decided to take a look at every country that has an ETF to its name. I excluded all regional ETF’s so this means that the Middle East and Africa for example are not very represented. But I thought it would be interesting to take a look. It is stunning to see how Ishares has the top ETF (in terms of market cap) for almost every country available. But as companies like Market Vectors launch ETF’s on countries like Egypt and Vietnam, it will be interesting to see if Ishares can remain on top.
Another trend is for new ETF’s to be launched on subsectors of these single countries. This obviously leaves almost unlimited possibilities. The difficult part will be to get investors to buy such ETF’s.
I was also surprised to see that countries like Taiwan & India have more important ETF’s than major economies such as Germany, France and Spain. I’m not sure to have an explanation. Any ideas?
I would have expected to see higher fees for less developed countries such as Thailand but Ishares seems to have all their ETF’s on single countries at more or less the same fee ratios.
Any thoughts on the table? Do you know of any missing country ETF?
Ticker Name Market Cap Price Return YTD Fees
SPY SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust USA) $70,583,140,352 $110.26 -1.06 0.0945
EWZ iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund $10,358,849,536 $68.53 -8.15 0.65
FXI iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Fund $7,872,331,776 $39.70 -6.06 0.73
EWJ iShares MSCI Japan Index Fund $5,225,210,880 $9.90 1.64 0.56
EWT iShares MSCI Taiwan Index Fund $3,325,728,000 $12.07 -6.94 0.65
EWY iShares MSCI South Korea Index Fund $3,043,329,024 $47.26 -0.8 0.65
EWC iShares MSCI Canada Index Fund $3,037,289,984 $26.11 -0.84 0.55
EWA iShares MSCI Australia Index Fund $2,249,856,000 $22.38 -2.01 0.55
EWH iShares MSCI Hong Kong Index Fund $1,696,269,056 $15.29 -2.36 0.52
RSX Market Vectors - Russia ETF $1,531,465,984 $31.33 0.45 0.62
EWS iShares MSCI Singapore Index Fund $1,455,960,064 $11.11 -3.31 0.55
INP iPath MSCI India Index ETN $1,046,220,032 $61.07 -4.67 0.89
EWW iShares MSCI Mexico Investable Market Index Fund $951,181,888 $48.75 -0.25 0.55
EWU iShares MSCI United Kingdom Index Fund $912,108,928 $15.57 -3.89 0.55
EWG iShares MSCI Germany Index Fund $883,049,984 $20.29 -9.58 0.55
EWM iShares MSCI Malaysia Index Fund $568,738,496 $10.65 0.28 0.56
EZA iShares MSCI South Africa Index Fund $461,936,800 $54.37 -2.86 0.66
TUR iShares MSCI Turkey Index Fund $394,106,304 $54.76 1.6 0.65
ECH iShares MSCI Chile Investable Market Index Fund $380,430,016 $56.84 3.74 0.65
EWL iShares MSCI Switzerland Index Fund $314,583,712 $21.47 -3.55 0.56
EWQ iShares MSCI France Index Fund $284,760,000 $23.67 -8.43 0.55
EWP iShares MSCI Spain Index Fund $237,236,992 $41.00 -14.65 0.56
THD iShares MSCI Thailand Index Fund $207,030,000 $40.11 -5.6 0.65
EIS iShares MSCI Israel Capped Index Fund $203,925,104 $55.94 2.83 0.66
EWD iShares MSCI Sweden Index Fund $197,148,000 $23.49 -0.04 0.55
EWO iShares MSCI Austria Investable Market Index Fund $137,016,000 $18.90 -3.37 0.55
EPU iShares MSCI All Peru Capped Index Fund $134,767,504 $31.79 -2.78 0.63
VNM Market Vectors Vietnam ETF $113,508,896 $26.24 2.94 0.99
EWI iShares MSCI Italy Index Fund $112,101,000 $17.44 -10.61 0.55
EWK iShares MSCI Belgium Investable Market Index Fund $98,578,800 $12.57 -1.49 0.56
PLND Market Vectors Poland ETF $17,055,000 $22.90 -5.45 0.76
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