EZAiShares MSCI South Africa ETF

Grow my money23y track recordRanked #601 of 2,966 in this goal

Seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of South African equities.

By iShares · Launched 2003

Annual Cost

0.59%

#3,005 of 5,568 · average

Fund Size

$693M

#1,331 of 5,568 · large

Return (1Y)Goal

+39.5%

Track Record

23 years

#164 of 5,568 · established

Performance

Total-return NAV · USD

Growth of $10,000

$14,404+44.0%

Total-return NAV, USD. Net of fund fees, before tax.

Classification

How Beacon categorizes this fund

Asset class

Equity

Region

Emerging markets

Cap

Multi cap

Strategy

Index tracking

Index tracked

MSCI South Africa 25/50 Index

What it actually holds

By weight

Concentration

Top 10 holdings = 66.2% of fundconcentrated

Naspers Ltd

13.3%

Anglogold Ashanti Plc

11.6%

Gold Fields Ltd

10.2%

FirstRand Ltd

6.3%

Valterra Platinum Ltd

4.8%

Standard Bank Group Ltd

4.5%

Capitec Bank Holdings Ltd

4.5%

MTN Group Ltd

4.1%

Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd

3.5%

Harmony Gold Mining Co Ltd

3.4%

Asset allocation

Stocks

99.7%

Cash

0.3%

By sector

Basic Materials

39.0%

Financial Services

33.5%

Consumer Cyclical

14.3%

Communication

6.5%

Consumer Defensive

2.5%

Real Estate

1.6%

Industrials

1.5%

Healthcare

1.1%

Risk profile

Last 12 months · Sharpe & Sortino need 3+ years

Volatility (1Y)

31.9%High

Year-on-year price swings

Max drawdown

-62.3%Severe

Worst peak-to-trough loss

Sharpe (3Y)

0.78Decent risk-adjusted returns

Sortino (3Y)

1.14Good downside protection

Where to buy

Listing

Exchange: NYSE Arca

Full fund details

Objective: Seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of South African equities.
Strategy: Tracks the MSCI South Africa 25/50 Index, a free float-adjusted market capitalization-weighted index designed to measure the performance of large- and mid-cap segments of the South African equity market. The Fund invests at least 80% of its assets in the component securities of the Underlying Index and may use representative sampling to manage the Fund.
Inception date: February 3, 2003
Fund family: iShares