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Despite the U.S. national debt, there is a silver lining for income
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international income investors could reap the rewards in the form of
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An African ETF That Gets You
Into the Last Great Resource Frontier |
[http://www.streetauthority.com/includes/article-top-ma.htm]Published:
May 28, 2009
We first covered the Market Vectors Africa
(NYSE: AFK)
ETF
back in our August 2008 issue of
StreetAuthority Market Advisor. Africa is a mix of developing and
frontier economies. On one end of the spectrum you have South Africa,
which boasts of a stable and growing middle-class, modern
infrastructure, a well-developed financial system, and the 17th largest
stock exchange in the world.
You also have many regions like Ghana, which has thriving industries
related to gold and cocoa, but where more than half the population is
still agrarian-based. And of course you have regions like the Congo,
rich in natural resources, but where violent conflict is still a
reality.
When taken together, however, you have a treasure trove of natural
resources and fast-growing economies. And that's what AFK does -- it
puts this them together in an exchange-traded fund (ETF), making it easy
for U.S. investors to tap into this normally hard-to-reach region.
This ETF tracks the performance of the Dow Jones Africa Titans 50 Index,
which represents 50 of the largest publicly traded companies that
generate the majority of their earnings in Africa. The largest holding
is British-based Tullow Oil, which operates primarily in Africa. Oil and
gas related companies make up just a little over 13% of the fund's
holdings. 20% of the fund's portfolio represents natural resource
companies like Randgold Resources (Nasdaq: GOLD) and Aquarius Platinum.
12% is invested in some of the fastest-growing telecommunication markets
in the world. The largest percentage of the fund's holdings hail from
the financial sector; approximately 30% of the portfolio is made up of
banking companies like First Bank of Nigeria and Standard Bank Group.
Last fall, troubled hedge-funds were forced to quickly unwind their
positions and many of these were invested in frontier and emerging
economies. The rapid decline of oil and other commodity prices also
drove down prices in resource-rich markets like Africa.
But both these trends seem to be reversing. Money is again finding its
way back into emerging market investments and commodity prices have
begun their long road to recovery. This has been good for AFK. While
still well off its 52-week high, AFK is up roughly +15% year-to-date,
compared to the relatively flat performance of the S&P 500. [http://www.streetauthority.com/includes/editor-profiles-ma.htm]
Disclosure: Paul Tracy
does not own shares of AFK.
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