Investing in Taiwan ETFs / Taiwan ETF List

A list of Taiwan ETFs consists of the iShares MSCI Taiwan Index Fund (NYSEARCA: EWT) from iShares tracking the FTSE Taiwan Capped Index and the Franklin FTSE Taiwan ETF (NYSEARCA: FLTW) from Franklin Templeton tracking the FTSE Taiwan Capped Index. The First Trust Taiwan AlphaDEX Fund (NYSEARCA: FTW) from First Trust has changed its name and ticker to the First Trust India NIFTY 50 Equal Weight ETF (NYSEARCA: NFTY) while the SPDR MSCI Taiwan Quality Mix ETF (NYSEARCA: QTWN) from State Street SPDR was liquidated in 2016.

Investors interested in investing in Taiwan ETFs should also check out our Taiwan closed-end fund list and Taiwan ADR list as well as our Asia Pacific ETF listAsia Pacific closed-end fund list, East Asia closed-end fund list, China closed-end fund list pages as region wide and/or China ETFs or closed-end funds could have exposure to Taiwan or Taiwanese stocks. In addition, its worth remembering that many Taiwanese stocks and the Taiwan economy itself would have significant exposure to Mainland China as well as to the regional and global economies due to the electronics and semiconductor industries.

Taiwan ETF List*

ETFTickerMgr / AdvisorAsset ClassInceptionTracking Index
1First Trust Taiwan AlphaDEX Fund FTWFirst TrustEquities - EM2012/02/15 - 2018 ReorganizedDefined Taiwan Index
2Franklin FTSE Taiwan ETFFLTWFranklin TempletonEquities - EM2017/11/02FTSE Taiwan Capped Index
3iShares MSCI Taiwan Index FundEWTiSharesEquities - EM2000/06/20MSCI Taiwan 25/50 Index (M1CXBISD)
4SPDR MSCI Taiwan Quality Mix ETF QTWNState Street SPDREquities - EM2014/09/17 - 2016/11/14 LiquidatedMSCI Taiwan Quality Mix A-Series Index

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Taiwan ETF Investing ResourcesTaiwan ETFs

Taiwan ETF investors will want to check out these useful and mostly English news resources for investing in Taiwan stocks or about the country in general:

Investors may also want to watch or listen to The Craziest Stockmarket Bubble You’ve Never Heard of:

The financial bubble that gripped Taiwan in the 1980s is one of the wildest the world has ever seen. Stock prices went up more than 12x in less than four years, over a third of the Taiwanese population over the age of 15 were actively playing the stock market, and on peak days trading on the Taipei Stock Exchange exceeded the turnover of both the Tokyo and New York stock exchanges, combined! This is the story behind the boom and bust of Taiwan’s seldom discussed, yet spectacular stock market bubble.

For additional resources for investing in emerging market ETFs or Taiwan, check out all of our ETF category or Taiwan category articles/links.

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