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About iShares MSCI Malaysia Index Fund
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Inception date
Mar 12, 1996
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Dividend treatment
Distributes
Distribution tax treatment
Ordinary income
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
EWM, launched in 1996, is one of the longest-living ETFs on the market. Providing straightforward and comprehensive exposure across the Malaysian stock market, EWM invests mainly in large- and midcap companies traded on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. The fund tracks an index that selects and weights its components based on market capitalization. The fund also uses a representative sampling strategy, which means it will invest in a sample of securities that collectively have an investment profile similar to that of the underlying index. The index is rebalanced quarterly.
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Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Finance
Utilities
Stocks99.56%
Finance44.79%
Utilities14.36%
Process Industries9.72%
Communications7.25%
Producer Manufacturing3.89%
Industrial Services3.85%
Distribution Services3.57%
Health Services3.28%
Consumer Non-Durables2.87%
Consumer Durables2.38%
Transportation2.07%
Consumer Services1.52%
Bonds, Cash & Other0.44%
Cash0.44%
Stock breakdown by region
Asia100.00%
North America0.00%
Latin America0.00%
Europe0.00%
Africa0.00%
Middle East0.00%
Oceania0.00%
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Dividends
Dividend payout history