Franklin Ftse South Korea ETF News

FLKR: Korea Could Be This Year's Sleeper Hit As 'Value Up' Catalyst Looms

Goldman Sachs is bullish on South Korea. The research house believes that the market will offer the highest earnings growth next year.

South Korea's exports to mainland China have remained weak during 2023, recording a decline of 9.5% y/y in October. According to latest trade data from South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and En

After posting sluggish growth in Q1 of 2023, the fourth-largest Asian economy barely managed to avoid a recession. With an IMF forecast of 1.5% growth in GDP for 2023, the export sector of South Korea

The Franklin FTSE South Korea ETF is a smaller, less commonly covered ETF that tracks the performance of mid/large cap stocks in South Korea. South Korea is currently my top pick out of the top five l

Investors have a ton on their plate this year, from inflation to rising rates to the prospect of a recession in the second half of the year.

The South Korean economy slowed significantly during the second half of 2022, with GDP contracting by 0.4% quarter-on-quarter (q/q) in the fourth quarter of 2022. South Korea's manufacturing sector re

U.S. investors may be wary of domestic equities right now, and they'd have good reason, given how overvalued they are. Market watchers in the U.S.

Investors have had a lot of volatility to face when looking to their international equities slice this year, from Russia's invasion of Ukraine and global energy costs to China's “Zero COVID” polic

Investor expectations were buoyed at the beginning of the year with the inauguration of pro-business President Yoon Suk-yeol. By 2026, South Korean battery makers will be operating plants in the U.S.,

Non-China Asian exports are still growing, but the pace of increase has slowed and will slow still further as key export destinations struggle with inflation, energy security, and rising recession ris

The Bank of Korea delivered back-to-back interest rate hikes and forecasts further aggressive increases to bring consumer inflation down from 13-year highs. The country's central bank announced Thursd

3 South Korea ETFs for Q2 2021 are KORU, FLKR, and EWY.

Investing in international markets is not a new theme. In addition to the lucrative returns associated with this strategy, investors often place importance on the diversification benefits of expanding

By John Welling, Director, Equity Indices, S&P Dow Jones Indices Key to evaluating core international equity benchmarks is an understanding of the country exposures offered. Developed and emerging ma