Cetera Investment Advisers Buys 32,694 Shares of iShares MSCI Canada ETF $EWC

Cetera Investment Advisers boosted its stake in iShares MSCI Canada ETF (NYSEARCA:EWC) by 20.4% in the 1st quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm owned 192,819 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after acquiring an additional 32,694 shares during the quarter. Cetera Investment Advisers’ holdings in iShares MSCI Canada ETF were worth $10,565,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in EWC. The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company grew its position in iShares MSCI Canada ETF by 1,675.5% during the fourth quarter. The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company now owns 3,178,045 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $171,392,000 after buying an additional 2,999,053 shares in the last quarter. Assetmark Inc. boosted its position in shares of iShares MSCI Canada ETF by 5.4% during the 1st quarter. Assetmark Inc. now owns 1,800,052 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $98,625,000 after acquiring an additional 91,652 shares during the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE grew its holdings in shares of iShares MSCI Canada ETF by 22.8% during the second quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 1,769,516 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $81,752,000 after purchasing an additional 328,742 shares in the last quarter. Korea Investment CORP grew its holdings in shares of iShares MSCI Canada ETF by 5.7% during the fourth quarter. Korea Investment CORP now owns 1,757,957 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $94,807,000 after purchasing an additional 94,857 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. increased its position in shares of iShares MSCI Canada ETF by 1.4% in the first quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 1,534,679 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $62,538,000 after purchasing an additional 21,113 shares during the last quarter.

iShares MSCI Canada ETF Price Performance

EWC stock opened at $59.79 on Friday. iShares MSCI Canada ETF has a one year low of $45.66 and a one year high of $60.07. The stock has a market cap of $6.17 billion, a PE ratio of 19.77 and a beta of 0.86. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $58.52 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $57.12.

iShares MSCI Canada ETF Profile

iShares MSCI Canada ETF (the Fund), formerly iShares MSCI Canada Index Fund, is an exchange-traded fund (ETF). The Fund seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of publicly traded securities in the Canadian market, as measured by the MSCI Canada Index (the Index). The Index seeks to measure the performance of the Canadian equity market. It is a capitalization-weighted index that aims to capture 85% of the (publicly available) total market capitalization.