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Two Japan ETFs hold the exact same stocks, yet one left investors with thousands of dollars less. The culprit never shows up on a fee table, and most owners of the cheaper-looking…
iShares MSCI Japan ETF (NYSEARCA:EWJ) is the default way for American investors to gain exposure to Japan. EWJ tracks the MSCI Japan Index, holds hundreds of Japanese large- and mid-cap companies including…
Japan is having a moment. The MSCI Japan benchmark has delivered an unhedged return of about 13% year to date through late May, while the currency-hedged version has tacked on closer to…
While most investors spent early 2026 fixated on the S&P 500’s volatility, Japan’s equity markets quietly put together one of the most compelling runs in global finance. The Nikkei 225 is up…
For most of the past three decades, Japan was the cautionary tale of developed market investing: a bubble economy that never fully recovered, a central bank that couldn’t normalize rates, and corporations…
Japanese equities have delivered some of the strongest returns of any major market over the past year, but USD-based investors who chased that rally without hedging their currency exposure captured far less…
While U.S. investors piled into domestic equities throughout 2025, Japan quietly delivered one of the year’s strongest performances. The iShares MSCI Japan ETF (NYSEARCA:EWJ) returned 29% over the past year, crushing the…
When the yen weakens, Japanese stocks can deliver strong returns in their home market but disappointing results for U.S. investors. Currency moves can erase gains. That’s the problem WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity…
24/7 Wall St. wanted to take a closer look at how key exchange traded funds that track Japan have reacted to the Bank of Japan's news ahead of Wednesday's FOMC announcement.
After more Federal Reserve presidents are pushing for higher U.S. interest rates, several things may be of concern to gold investors for the rest of 2016.
So-called hedged ETFs take all or most of the currency risk out of the equation. They simply trade in dollars and track the raw underlying equity market indexes on which they are…
It may not seem like much of a big deal to U.S. investors, but the Asian equities markets will have to trade without Japan leading off for the first three days of…
As the dollar keeps getting stronger, investors wanting to diversify into international equities are finding a refuge in hedged equity exchange traded funds.
Paul Ausick Equity ETFs are the winners so far this year, but bonds and gold not so much.
Japan made policy announcements last Friday that were highly supportive of overweight analyst calls for Japan.
