{"id":11830,"date":"2019-01-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/2019\/01\/14\/the-highlights-of-japans-etfs\/"},"modified":"2019-01-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T00:00:00","slug":"the-highlights-of-japans-etfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/the-highlights-of-japans-etfs\/","title":{"rendered":"The highlights of Japan’s ETFs"},"content":{"rendered":"

An ETF<\/a> <\/strong>is a marketable security that tracks a stock index, commodities, bonds or assets. While ETFs may be similar in so many ways, they differ from mutual funds since shares traded like common stock on an exchange. The prices of ETFs also differ throughout the day as they are sold or bought.<\/p>\n

Some ETFs are established as Unit Investment Trusts<\/strong> (UITs) which have dates set in the future indicating when the fund will end. Some ETFs may have heavy concentration in just one stock asset while others may have a small group of stocks and assets that are very highly correlated.<\/p>\n

The Japan<\/a> <\/strong>Exchange-Traded Funds (EFTs) invests most of its assets in Japanese equities that trade on local stock exchanges. ETFs in the Japanese stock market track seven indices. Japan ETFs are managed passively around a broad underlying index, an example is the MSCI Japan Index which represents over 75% of the total market cap of all equities listed in Japan.<\/p>\n

Advantages of Japan ETFs<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Japan equity ETFs have gone from hot to cold in the past few years. These are some of the reasons why you could consider investing in a Japan ETF;<\/p>\n