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iShares MSCI Emerging MarketsXEC.TOPAST TOP PICKSep 21, 2018Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jun 15, 2026. Market Open.
(A Top Pick Jan 24/20, Up 12%) Owns a lot of this. Two-thirds of this are mega-cap Chinese and Korean stocks, including Alibaba, Tencent and Samsung which rank among the biggest in the world by market cap. Yet, they aren't in indexes like EAFE. Eventually he thinks these big names will be migrated into the regular global ETFs. For now, XEC is the way to play them. Growth will come from Asia.
(A Top Pick July 5/17, Up 6%) Came off hard recently. Emerging markets have become dominated by Asia, ex-Japan. 2 / 3 of the index is now the large China stocks and Korean and Taiwan, like Baidu and Samsung. In the old days emerging used to be “junky resource things,” but this is no longer the case. He is using XEC for his higher net worth clients instead of AAXJ in the US so that they are not subject to US estate.