Among the topics in my discussions with fellow retail investors over the past couple of months, one of them was about investing in other countries for diversification – and one of the countries being mentioned is Japan, due to it being the 3rd largest economy in the world, and also the fact that the weak Japanese Yen against the US dollar makes the country’s assets attractive to foreign investors. Besides studying and buying individual Japanese stocks, you can also get diversification and be invested in a basket of Japanese stocks by investing in an ETF – and one of them you may want to have a look at is the iShares MSCI Japan ETF (NYSE ARCA:EWJ). In this post, I will be sharing with you researches I have done, including information about the underlying index it tracks, fees of the ETF, dividend payout to investors, breakdown of the sectors of the constituents of the ETF, brief introduction on the top 10 companies that make up the biggest weightage in the ETF, along with my preferred buy points based on its weekly price movements since its inception…
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My name is Jun Yuan, and I am the owner of The Singaporean Investor. I am a full-time retail investor and trader since April 2017, and in this website, I'd be sharing with you my personal analyses of Singapore-listed companies, along with advices relating to investing, as well as trading.
