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About iShares MSCI Canada Index Fund
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Inception date
Mar 12, 1996
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Dividend treatment
Distributes
Distribution tax treatment
Qualified dividends
Income tax type
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Primary advisor
BlackRock Fund Advisors
Distributor
BlackRock Investments LLC
EWC aims to capture the large- and mid-cap segments of the Canadian market while reflecting capping constraints. Its underlying index is market cap-weighted and rebalanced on a quarterly basis using a variation of the MSCI 25/50 Indexes methodology, where the weight of any single group entity will be constrained at 22.5% and the sum of the weights of all group entities representing more than 5% weight will be constrained at 24.5%. By doing so, it minimizes index turnover, tracking err and extreme deviation from the parent index. Moreover, a buffer is used to reduce the risk of non-compliance due to short term market movements between two quarterly rebalancing. Prior to September 2017, the funds underlying index was the MSCI Canada Index (where the MSCI Canada Custom Capped Index is constructed from).
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Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Finance
Non-Energy Minerals
Technology Services
Stocks99.76%
Finance37.16%
Non-Energy Minerals12.07%
Technology Services11.93%
Utilities7.61%
Energy Minerals7.36%
Retail Trade6.22%
Transportation6.06%
Industrial Services5.83%
Process Industries1.23%
Communications1.03%
Consumer Services0.90%
Commercial Services0.70%
Consumer Non-Durables0.48%
Electronic Technology0.45%
Producer Manufacturing0.41%
Distribution Services0.31%
Bonds, Cash & Other0.24%
Cash0.24%
Stock breakdown by region
North America100.00%
Latin America0.00%
Europe0.00%
Asia0.00%
Africa0.00%
Middle East0.00%
Oceania0.00%
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Dividend payout history