EWN vs FLCA

EWNBiShares MSCI Netherlands ETF

FLCAAFranklin FTSE Canada ETF

In short

EWN One ticker for the Amsterdam market: roughly 60 Dutch stocks, large-cap down to small, with capping rules that keep any single giant from swallowing the fund. Running since 1996.

FLCA Canada in one ticker, at index-fund pricing. FLCA tracks the FTSE Canada Capped Index, about 50 large- and mid-cap Canadian names, for 0.09% a year.

Stated mandate

EWN The fund seeks to track a broad-based index of Dutch equities.

FLCA The fund seeks to track the FTSE Canada Capped Index, which measures the performance of Canadian large- and mid-capitalization stocks.

Why people hold it

• EWN Full-market reach: the index spans large, mid and small caps traded mainly on the Amsterdam exchange, not just the blue-chip handful.sec.gov
• Built-in guardrail: no single issuer may exceed 25% of the index, and issuers above 5% cannot top 50% combined.sec.gov
• Trading since 1996, an ETF-industry original, and it still does one plain job: Dutch equities, no hedges, no tilts.
• Sits in the upper half of the developed single-country group: mainstream MSCI index, a mid-sized asset base and steady volume.

• FLCA 0.09% a year against a 0.45% median for index-tracking ETFs. On plain-vanilla country exposure, the fee gap is most of the story.
• The mandate is refreshingly plain: the FTSE Canada Capped Index, Canadian large and mid caps, no factor tilts, no derivatives overlay.
• Live since 2017 and one of the stronger implementations in a crowded field of index trackers.

Worth knowing

• EWN The 0.50% fee matches the typical developed single-country fund, though cohort peers like FLKR and FLAU run 0.09%.
• One country, about 60 names, and a cap that still allows one issuer near a quarter of the fund. Concentrated by design.sec.gov
• Cash comes annually or semiannually rather than monthly, and returns ride the euro since the holdings trade in Amsterdam.sec.gov

• FLCA About 50 stocks in one country. That is a targeted slice of the world, not a diversified core.
• Mid-sized and moderately traded, so limit orders are the sane way in and out.
• Distributions arrive once or twice a year rather than quarterly, which matters if you spend the income.

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