Most people know that the S&P 500 Index tracks the performance of the top 500 American companies by market capitalisation, and that 8 out of 10 of the top 10 companies are technology companies. However, many people are not aware that the companies within the index are from 11 different sectors, and that you have the option to invest in individual sectors (through the indexes that track them). In this post, you will learn what each of the 11 sectors are, along with some basic information about them…
iShares MSCI Japan ETF (NYSE ARCA:EWJ) – What You Need to Know Before You Invest in It
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…
6 Things You Need to Know about the Straits Times Index (STI) Before You Invest
For those of you who do not have time to study the individual companies, but at the same time want to invest in the Singapore market, you may consider investing in the country’s benchmark index – the Straits Times Index (or STI for short), where you’ll be invested in 30 of the biggest Singapore’s listed companies by market capitalisation. Here are 6 things you need to know about the Index to give you a good understanding about it before you invest…
What You Need to Know about CSOP iEdge S-REIT Leaders Index ETF
CSOP Asset Management Pte. Ltd. have, on 18 November 2021, listed a REIT ETF called the CSOP iEdge S-REIT Leaders Index ETF on the Singapore Exchange (the ticker symbol for it is SGX:SRT). In today’s post (written in collaboration between The Singaporean Investor and CSOP Asset Management Pte. Ltd.), you’ll read about everything you need to know about this newly listed ETF – the 28 REITs which this ETF comprises of, dividend payouts you’ll receive as a shareholder, along with my thoughts about it…
