{"id":1433,"date":"2021-07-12T10:36:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T10:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investwithanedge.com\/?page_id=1433"},"modified":"2021-07-12T10:36:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T10:36:50","slug":"another-international-sector-suite-bites-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/investwithanedge.com\/another-international-sector-suite-bites-the-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"Another International Sector Suite Bites The Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sector ETFs are popular. International sector ETFs, not so much. In fact, successfully maintaining a foreign sector ETF suite has proven to be nearly impossible. The latest casualty is the 10-ETF All Country excluding US Sector Suite launched by iShares in 2010.<\/p>\n
As previously announced, March 25, 2014 was the last day of trading for:<\/p>\n
The 10 closing funds had total assets of less than $54 million when BlackRock (BLK), the sponsor of iShares ETFs, announced its liquidation plans. The iShares MSCI ACWI ex US Healthcare ETF (AXHE) was the most popular member of the set with investors, yet it had only about $12 million in assets. These closures push the lifetime US ETP death toll above 400.<\/p>\n