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A NordiCaps Region Index IEV

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+2.70% in 449 days   <> Top 10 Rated Nordic Companies <> Nordic Region: Stats for All 116 & Top 40 Companies Nordic Region: Breakdown by Country <> As evidence of commercial interest in developing an ETF for the Nordic region, Global X Management has recently filed for such a product, based on the FTSE Nordic 30 Index . The Global X filing specifies that, "The underlying index tracks the performance of the 30 largest and most liquid companies in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland. The Adviser uses a passive or indexing approach to try to achieve the Fu... Continue reading »

NordiCaps Region Index: Analysis & Statistics For Each Country IEV

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+15.07% in 481 days <> An analysis of the 116 companies included in my NordiCaps Region Index reveals the top performing Scandinavian country was Norway on both average (-1.8%) and market cap-weighted (+6.3%) trailing 52-week stock price performance, finishing well ahead of runner-up Denmark with a weighted loss of 3.2% and an average loss of 14.7%. Iceland fared worst of all the Nordic region companies with just 5 companies eligible and losses of 42% (weighted) and 49.2% (average) over the past year. The accompanying tables break down the performance of the component stocks for each of the five Nord... Continue reading »

NordiCaps Region Top 50 ETF & 116-Company Index IEV

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+0.00% in 2 hours (closed on 08/12/08) Table of 66 Other Companies Table of NordiCaps Top 50 Active Companies <> <> Moving beyond the single country focus of exchange-traded funds [ETFs] such as iShares Sweden (EWD), I have developed a NordiCaps Region Stock Index and Top 50 market cap-weighted ETF proposal which includes 116 companies based in the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden with market caps over $1 billion US Dollars as of the market close on August 11, 2008. The Nordic region is expected to outperform both the United States [US] and the EU... Continue reading »

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Bookkeeping: Weekly Changes to Fund Positions Year 2, Week 48

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Year 2, Week 48 Major Position Changes <>To see historic weekly fund changes click here OR the label at the bottom of this entry entitled 'fund positions'. Cash: 72.1% (vs 69.9% last week) 27 long bias: 22.1% (vs 28.6% last week) 7 short bias: 5.8% (vs 1.5% last week) 34 positions (vs 36 last week) Weekly thoughts First to our 2 charts, simple versus exponential.... On the Exponential moving averages, we spent the early part of the week making progress - attempting to make another run at the 200 day moving average. Wednesday was driven by the upteemth (4th) Chinese Purchasing Managers Index report s... Continue reading »

Scandinavian Select Nordic Region Index: A Full Profile

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<><> The accompanying table [click to enlarge] includes statistics for all 82 companies in the ETF Innovators [ETFI] Scandinavian Select Nordic Region Index, which was last updated in mid-December. This index tracks the performance of companies in the Nordic Region with market caps over $1B U.S. Dollars and would include the Top 35 Rated Companies as a new idea for a semi-active ETF with quarterly rebalancing as compared to the pending passive ETF for the Nordic Region filed by Global X which will track the 30 largest and most liquid stocks in the region based on the FTSE 30 Nordic Index. The clos... Continue reading »

A New Scandinavian Select Nordic Region Index

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The accompanying table [click to enlarge] includes the Top 10 rated companies among a total of 82 which are included in the ETF Innovators [ETFI] Scandinavian Select Nordic Region Index. This index tracks the performance of companies in the Nordic Region with market caps over $1B U.S. Dollars, with the Top 35 Rated companies chosen as active components for a new semi-active ETF idea with quarterly rebalancing. Since I last wrote about the index in mid-October, the number of Scandinavian companies with market caps over $1B has declined by 10 and all 82 companies lost 42.6% over the past year ... Continue reading »

A Selective Investment in Scandinavia

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As evidence of commercial interest in developing an ETF for the Nordic region, Global X Management has recently filed for such a product, based on the FTSE Nordic 30 Index. The Global X filing specifies that, "The underlying index tracks the performance of the 30 largest and most liquid companies in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland. The Adviser uses a passive or indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund’s investment objective." In contrast, the ETFI Nordic Region PerformIdex is a semi-active ETF proposal with quarterly rebalancing among all companies in Sweden, Denmark, Norway,... Continue reading »

A Better Index for Investing in Scandinavia

  Moving beyond the single country focus of exchange-traded funds [ETFs] such as iShares Sweden (EWD), I have developed a NordiCaps Region Stock Index and Top 50 market cap-weighted ETF proposal which includes 116 companies based in the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden with market caps over $1 billion US Dollars as of the market close on August 11, 2008. Table of 66 Other Companies Table of NordiCaps Top 50 Active Companies   <>   <>The Nordic region is expected to outperform both the United States [US] and the EURO-zone [EU] economies with a forecast... Continue reading »

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