ETFs & Mutual Funds

Best ETF in the World Faces Crucial Test With Milei’s Argentina Overhaul Under Fire

  • Fund tracking Argentina was best country equity ETF in 2023
  • December saw most inflows since fund was launched in 2011

Traders work at the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange  in Argentina. 

Photographer: Ricardo Ceppi/Getty Images
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An exchange-traded fund tracking Argentine stocks beat all peers last year, buoyed by President Javier Milei’s vows to deliver shock therapy to the ailing economy.

The Global X MSCI Argentina ETF was the best-performing single-country equity ETF in the world in 2023, with returns of 53%, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The fund, one of the main securities for investors interested in putting money in a country where access to local markets is complicated by capital controls, saw assets jump four-fold in the past year, to $124 million.