Top Performing China Region ETFs 2015

China region ETFs have a great year for the past 1 year. These exchange traded funds are investing mainly in stocks of companies located in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Some fund may invest in certain sectors such as financial, industrial, commodity, etc.

Best Equity Funds

These top performing China region funds are selected based on its 1 year total return in 2014. Unlike mutual fund, these exchange traded funds don’t have a sales load or a transaction fee. You can find the fund review and other fund information below such as the yield, expense ratio, top holdings, top sectors, etc.

Top performing China region ETFs 2015 are:

1. PowerShares China A-Share ETF (CHNA)
2. Market Vectors ChinaAMC A-Share ETF (PEK)
3. Deutsche X-trackers Harvest CSI300 CHN A (ASHR)
4. Global X China Financials ETF (CHIX)
5. iShares China Large-Cap ETF (FXI)
6. iShares FTSE China ETF (FCHI)
7. iShares MSCI China ETF (MCHI)
8. First Trust Taiwan AlphaDEX ETF (FTW)
9. Guggenheim China Real Estate ETF (TAO)
10. iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF (EWH)

PowerShares China A-Share ETF

PowerShares China A-Share ETF is an actively managed ETF. It uses its assets to provide exposure to the China A-Share market using SGX FTSE China A50 Index futures contracts. The current yield is 0%. The total assets are $8 million. Its expense fee is only 0.51%.

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The fund performance is as follows:

• Year 2015: -11.34% (YTD)
• Year 2014: 65.64%

Market Vectors ChinaAMC A-Share ETF

Market Vectors ChinaAMC A-Share ETF is tracking the price and yield performance of the CSI 300 Index. The Index is comprised of the 300 largest and most liquid stocks in the Chinese A-share market. This fund has $82 million of assets. Its expense fee is 0.72%. The current share price is $44.46.

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Morningstar has ranked this top performing China region ETF with 3 star rating. For the past 1 year, it has total return of 48.25%. In 2015, the year to date return is -3.39%.

Top 5 stocks in its holdings are: Ping An Insurance, China Minsheng Banking Corp Ltd, China Merchants Bank Co Ltd, CITIC Securities Co Ltd, and Haitong Securities Co Ltd. Top 3 sectors are financial services, industrials, and technology.

Fund Performance

No	ETF Name	Symbol	Expense Ratio (%)	1-Year Return
1	PowerShares China A-Share ETF	CHNA	0.43	54.47
2	Market Vectors ChinaAMC A-Share ETF	PEK	0.72	49.93
3	Deutsche X-trackers Harvest CSI300 CHN A	ASHR	0.92	48.69
4	Global X China Financials ETF	CHIX	0.65	34.18
5	iShares China Large-Cap ETF	FXI	0.74	26.94
6	iShares FTSE China ETF	FCHI	0.74	21.45
7	iShares MSCI China ETF	MCHI	0.62	20.5
8	First Trust Taiwan AlphaDEX® ETF	FTW	0.8	19.94
9	Guggenheim China Real Estate ETF	TAO	0.71	19.8
10	iShares MSCI Hong Kong	EWH	0.48	18.87
11	iShares MSCI Taiwan	EWT	0.62	16.66
12	First Trust Hong Kong AlphaDEX® ETF	FHK	0.8	14.69
13	SPDR® S&P China ETF	GXC	0.59	14.69
14	Global X China Industrials ETF	CHII	0.65	14.33
15	Guggenheim China All-Cap ETF	YAO	0.71	13.93
16	WisdomTree China Dividend ex-Fincls ETF	CHXF	0.63	11.15
17	Global X China Materials ETF	CHIM	0.65	10.8
18	First Trust China AlphaDEX® ETF	FCA	0.8	7.82
19	KraneShares CSI New China ETF	KFYP	0.68	3.87
20	Guggenheim China Technology ETF	CQQQ	0.71	2.67