Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. Acquires 16,121 Shares of iShares MSCI Canada ETF $EWC

Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. boosted its holdings in shares of iShares MSCI Canada ETF (NYSEARCA:EWC) by 3,497.0% in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 16,582 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after purchasing an additional 16,121 shares during the quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co.’s holdings in iShares MSCI Canada ETF were worth $894,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of EWC. Balyasny Asset Management L.P. bought a new stake in iShares MSCI Canada ETF in the 2nd quarter valued at $51,589,000. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A. boosted its holdings in iShares MSCI Canada ETF by 871.0% in the 3rd quarter. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A. now owns 663,041 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $33,482,000 after purchasing an additional 594,755 shares during the period. Bank of America Corp DE boosted its holdings in iShares MSCI Canada ETF by 22.8% in the 2nd quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 1,769,516 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $81,752,000 after purchasing an additional 328,742 shares during the period. UBS Group AG boosted its holdings in iShares MSCI Canada ETF by 54.7% in the 4th quarter. UBS Group AG now owns 532,095 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $28,696,000 after purchasing an additional 188,150 shares during the period. Finally, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans bought a new stake in iShares MSCI Canada ETF in the 4th quarter valued at $6,010,000.

iShares MSCI Canada ETF Price Performance

Shares of iShares MSCI Canada ETF stock opened at $58.06 on Tuesday. iShares MSCI Canada ETF has a fifty-two week low of $44.95 and a fifty-two week high of $59.52. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $57.54 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $55.73. The company has a market cap of $5.19 billion, a PE ratio of 19.77 and a beta of 0.85.

About iShares MSCI Canada ETF

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.