Topic: ETFs

Safest way to buy Vietnam

VANECK VECTORS VIETNAM ETF $14.75 (New York symbol VNM; buy or sell through brokers) holds Vietnamese companies and foreign firms that get a significant share of their revenue from the Southeast Asian nation.

The ETF’s top holdings are Vingroup (conglomerate), 8.6%; Vietnam Dairy Products, 7.9%; No Va Land Investment Group (real estate), 6.7%; the Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, 5.9%; and Masan Group (a food, resources and banking conglomerate), 5.4%.

Investing in Vietnam still comes with aboveaverage political risk. However, the fund cuts risk by investing part of its assets in firms that do a lot of their business in Vietnam, but are based elsewhere. That’s a better approach than adding the thinly traded, or illiquid, shares of smaller domestic firms.

Market Vectors Vietnam ETF is a buy for aggressive investors.

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