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Two Sector ETFs From iShares

By Don Dion

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 The world's largest ETF provider, iShares, is looking to beef up its family of emerging market exchange-traded funds with the registration of two new ETFs focused on sectors. Currently, most emerging markets ETFs provide investors broad exposure to these nations. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Financial Sector Index Fund will track an index consisting of 166 firms across 22 emerging nations. Its likely biggest competitor is a similar fund, Emerging Global Advisors' EGS Dow Jones Emerging Markets Financial Titans Index Fund, which tracks a basket of 26 firms across eight nations. EFN launched in mid September making it relatively new to the ETF arena. In the past month, the fund has gained a little more than 5%, while a lack of interest from investors has hindered the fund's attractiveness. Currently, EFN's average trading volume is just shy of 4,300. iShares' second registered fund, the...

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