These are the days in which the Chinese mainland stock market is closed for trading. Days are gone where the Chinese share market like the CSI 300 (related: best CSI 300 ETF) is closed for trading 2 weeks every year during the Spring festival. The Chinese government broke up the spring festival and golden week […]
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Hong Kong Market Holiday 2021
The list below is the Hong Kong market holidays where the HSX is closed for trading. The following holidays cover the HKEX and futures. It is interesting the days the HK market is closed is based on a combination of Chinese (Lunar New Year and National Day) and Western holidays (Easter and Christmas). HKEX Market […]
Sell BABA shares on China’s regulatory crackdown.
China is cracking down on Ant which is majority owned by BABA. This is an extremely fast development as it was only 2 month before that it was undergoing the world’s largest IPO. The real target of the crackdown however is Jack Ma and it looks like the firing squad is already turning its sights […]
Best Small Cap ETF for 2021 (Russell 2000 ETF, Dividend, Value and Growth ETFs)
Small cap ETFs are designed to give investors direct exposure to a portfolio of small cap stocks without the headaches of the typical higher volatility associated with owning small cap stocks individually. The small cap ETF provides diversified exposure in a cost effective manner. The tradeoff of investing via index fund or ETF rather than […]
Time to buy Energy Company Stocks
Oil price has crashed from high $100’s reached in 2007 to current price range between $40 and $50s. Following the crude oil prices bottoming post cost at below zero the pendulum between risk and reward looks to be leaning towards reward for long term investors. Investors can play in the recovery oil prices either directly […]
Australia Mortgage ETF List
One of the key limitation for Australian investor looking for yield is the limited fixed income investment options. It is extremely difficult for retail investors to directly own corporate bonds or invest in real estate mortgage securities. What are Mortgage ETFs? Mortgages are a form of asset backed loan and a mortgage ETF is an […]
How to Create a Conservative ETF Portfolio
One of the first rule of investing is “don’t lose money”. A well designed Conservative ETF Portfolio is for those who are conscious of this rule aiming to preserve capital to invest over the long run rather than trying to time market top and bottoms. A low risk ETF portfolio of index funds aim to replicate […]
Is it Finally Safe to Own Emerging Market Debt ETFs?
Emerging Market Debt ETFs invest exclusively in bonds of governments of the economies classified as emerging markets. When investors think of emerging markets, the first countries that come to mind are the powerhouse economies in Asia like China, Singapore and South Korea or BRICs. But if you scratch beneath the surface there are many more […]
Best CSI 300 ETF to Buy Into China’s Biggest Market Rally
The Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges has been on tear in 2020. The flood of government stimulus and return of retail investors in China has driven index past its previous cyclical high. CSI 300 index represent the 300 largest and mid sized companies listed on the Mainland Shenzhen and Shanghai exchanges. Investors is confident that […]
UK REIT List
REITs are considered high dividend stocks as a fundamental nature of the investment structure requires almost all of the earnings have to be paid out as dividends. [wpdatatable id=7]