Catalyst Capital Advisors LLC Sells 15,894 Shares of iShares MSCI Brazil ETF $EWZ

Catalyst Capital Advisors LLC decreased its holdings in iShares MSCI Brazil ETF (NYSEARCA:EWZ) by 2.4% during the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The firm owned 659,985 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after selling 15,894 shares during the period. Catalyst Capital Advisors LLC’s holdings in iShares MSCI Brazil ETF were worth $20,968,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of EWZ. Armstrong Advisory Group Inc. boosted its position in iShares MSCI Brazil ETF by 1.3% during the fourth quarter. Armstrong Advisory Group Inc. now owns 1,276,599 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $40,558,000 after acquiring an additional 16,367 shares during the last quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted its position in iShares MSCI Brazil ETF by 71.4% during the third quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 2,110,619 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $65,429,000 after acquiring an additional 879,500 shares during the last quarter. Black Swift Group LLC boosted its position in iShares MSCI Brazil ETF by 17.4% during the third quarter. Black Swift Group LLC now owns 362,435 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $11,235,000 after acquiring an additional 53,590 shares during the last quarter. Quinn Opportunity Partners LLC boosted its position in iShares MSCI Brazil ETF by 175.0% during the third quarter. Quinn Opportunity Partners LLC now owns 220,000 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $6,820,000 after acquiring an additional 140,000 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans boosted its position in iShares MSCI Brazil ETF by 410.8% during the third quarter. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans now owns 47,819 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $1,482,000 after acquiring an additional 38,458 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 72.69% of the company’s stock.

iShares MSCI Brazil ETF Trading Down 0.6%

Shares of EWZ opened at $35.91 on Friday. The stock has a market capitalization of $10.48 billion, a P/E ratio of 9.58 and a beta of 0.65. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $38.42 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $36.09. iShares MSCI Brazil ETF has a 12 month low of $26.30 and a 12 month high of $42.02.

About iShares MSCI Brazil ETF

iShares MSCI Brazil Capped Index Fund (the Fund), formerly iShares MSCI Brazil Index 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 Brazilian market, as measured by the MSCI Brazil Index (the Index). The Index seeks to measure the performance of the Brazilian equity market. It is a capitalization-weighted index that aims to capture 85% of the (publicly available) total market capitalization.