TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. Sells 6,777 Shares of iShares MSCI Japan ETF $EWJ

TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. lessened its holdings in iShares MSCI Japan ETF (NYSEARCA:EWJ) by 2.9% during the second quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The firm owned 225,396 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after selling 6,777 shares during the quarter. TD Waterhouse Canada Inc.’s holdings in iShares MSCI Japan ETF were worth $20,993,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in the business. Focus Partners Wealth lifted its holdings in shares of iShares MSCI Japan ETF by 39.0% during the first quarter. Focus Partners Wealth now owns 10,230 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $701,000 after purchasing an additional 2,869 shares during the last quarter. Marshall Wace LLP grew its stake in shares of iShares MSCI Japan ETF by 229.1% in the 2nd quarter. Marshall Wace LLP now owns 38,500 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $2,886,000 after buying an additional 26,800 shares during the last quarter. Qube Research & Technologies Ltd grew its stake in shares of iShares MSCI Japan ETF by 33,504.6% in the 2nd quarter. Qube Research & Technologies Ltd now owns 389,477 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $29,199,000 after buying an additional 388,318 shares during the last quarter. Alliancebernstein L.P. increased its position in iShares MSCI Japan ETF by 6.1% during the 2nd quarter. Alliancebernstein L.P. now owns 546,723 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $40,988,000 after buying an additional 31,344 shares in the last quarter. Finally, DZ BANK AG Deutsche Zentral Genossenschafts Bank Frankfurt am Main increased its position in iShares MSCI Japan ETF by 46.3% during the 2nd quarter. DZ BANK AG Deutsche Zentral Genossenschafts Bank Frankfurt am Main now owns 284,355 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $21,318,000 after buying an additional 89,999 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 64.60% of the company’s stock.

iShares MSCI Japan ETF Trading Up 0.4%

Shares of NYSEARCA:EWJ opened at $98.28 on Friday. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $94.23 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $91.14. The stock has a market capitalization of $23.28 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.63 and a beta of 0.69. iShares MSCI Japan ETF has a 12-month low of $78.21 and a 12-month high of $98.79.

iShares MSCI Japan ETF Profile

iShares MSCI Japan ETF (the fund), formerly Ishares Msci Japan Index Fund, is an exchange-traded fund. 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 Japanese market, as measured by the MSCI Japan Index (the Index). The Index consists of stocks traded primarily on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The Fund invests in a representative sample of securities included in the Index that collectively has an investment profile similar to the Index.