Global X MSCI Vietnam ETF

VNAM

市值 US$3289萬

Vietnam's top leader To Lam tells Bloomberg the nation is “very close” to a trade deal with the US. Vietnam wants to import more US items, Lam says in an exclusive interview on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

Vietnamese President To Lam says his nation is “very close” to a trade deal with the US, and pledges to buy more high-tech goods. “We do not accept transshipment of goods,” Lam said in an exclusive interview with Bloomberg on concerns about allegations that Chinese goods are being repackaged and rerouted through Vietnam.

ASEAN's dividend opportunity is underpinned by diverse and evolving market characteristics. The FTSE ASEAN Index, which captures the large- and mid-cap companies listed in the five ASEAN markets - Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines - has delivered a 10-year average dividend yield of 3.57%. Across multiple market cycles over the past 25 years, a back-test of the FTSE ASEAN ex REITs Target Dividend Index's strategy showed notable resilience during market downturns and lower overall volatility compared with the broader ASEAN market.

Vietnam has rapidly closed the gap with EM ASEAN peers, surpassing the Philippines in GDP per capita and equity market capitalisation, and moving closer to Indonesia. Vietnam's economic transformation has been driven largely by manufacturing and its growing role in the global tech supply chain.

Last week FTSE made its annual review of country classification within its global equity indices (see the announcement here). One of the most interesting changes was Vietnam's upgrade from frontier to emerging market.

Vietnam's footwear exports to the United States plunged 27% in September to $611 million, marking the steepest decline among all sectors following the implementation of tariffs by the U.S. government, according to customs data released Monday.

Steven Quattry, Morgan Stanley Investment Management says a number of emerging markets are undergoing structural reforms, hence attracting foreign capital.

The S&P 500 (SPY) rallied 5.7% this week but remains down 5.4% since the close on "Liberation Day" on 4/2. The average country ETF is down 4% since 4/2, so SPY has underperformed that since Trump's Rose Garden announcement. Asian countries like Vietnam (VNAM) and Thailand (THD) had some of the harshest reciprocal tariffs announced on Liberation Day, and since the pause, these two have bounced back 16.7% and 14.1%.

Since President Trump's second term began with the Inauguration on January 20th, the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) is down 16.5% compared to a 6.2% drop for the all world ex US ETF (CWI). It's early, but the rest of the world is solidly beating US markets so far under Trump 2.0. The average country ETF is down exactly 10% in the two and a half trading days since Trump's "Liberation Day," and the only two down less than 5% are India (INDA) and Turkey (TUR).

US equities have outperformed the rest of the world for a long time now. While the US is up 58% on a total return basis during the current bull market, the rest of the world is up 13.5 percentage points less at +44.5%. Looking at the international dividend ETF over a longer time frame, over the last five years, it's up 20.6% in price and more than double that on a total return basis.