On September 6, 2024, FTSE announced the constituent stock portfolio of the FTSE Vietnam Index (referenced by ETF FTSE), adding three new stocks: FRT, FTS, and KDH, while removing none. .
As of September 13, 2024, MarketVector announced the MarketVector Vietnam Local Index (VNM ETF reference) by removing the EVF code.
Notably, during this review period, the FTSE Vietnam 30 Index (referenced by Fubon ETF) will also review its portfolio, but will not publicly announce the official results. The referenced ETF will restructure its portfolio on the last implementation day. BSC Research predicts that the FTSE Vietnam 30 portfolio may remove VCG stock and add NAB stock instead.
The current scale of FTSE Vietnam ETF is 298 million USD (7.200 billion VND), VNM ETF is 493 million USD (12.100 billion VND), and Fubon ETF is 647 million USD (15.900 billion VND). The total scale reaches 35.2 trillion VND (~1.4 billion USD).
The above indexes will perform the final restructuring on September 20, 2024. BSC has predicted the number of stocks to be bought/sold for the referenced ETFs according to the indexes.
Specifically, some codes that may be heavily purchased include NAB (over 5.4 million shares), KDH (3.8 million shares), VIC (6.7 million shares), STB (7.5 million shares), VND (7.5 million shares), SHB (6.5 million shares), KDH (3.7 million shares), NVL (4.7 million shares),…
Conversely, ETFs may sell large amounts of stocks in codes such as VIX (23 million shares), HPG (13.7 million shares), EVF (7.4 million shares), MSN (5.8 million shares), and VRE (2.1 million shares),…

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