O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC Raises Stake in iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF $ACWX

O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC boosted its position in iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF (NASDAQ:ACWX) by 31.8% in the 4th quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 293,985 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 70,850 shares during the period. O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC’s holdings in iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF were worth $19,735,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also bought and sold shares of ACWX. Brighton Jones LLC purchased a new stake in iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF in the fourth quarter worth approximately $250,000. AQR Capital Management LLC boosted its stake in iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF by 8.2% in the first quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 19,813 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,099,000 after buying an additional 1,498 shares in the last quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. boosted its stake in iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF by 1.9% in the first quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 1,222,535 shares of the company’s stock worth $67,790,000 after buying an additional 23,283 shares in the last quarter. Qube Research & Technologies Ltd purchased a new stake in iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF in the second quarter worth approximately $1,467,000. Finally, Ieq Capital LLC boosted its stake in iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF by 41.6% in the second quarter. Ieq Capital LLC now owns 61,462 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,746,000 after buying an additional 18,045 shares in the last quarter.

iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF Price Performance

Shares of ACWX opened at $74.65 on Tuesday. The firm has a market cap of $11.29 billion, a P/E ratio of 16.03 and a beta of 0.77. The stock has a 50 day simple moving average of $73.49 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $70.76. iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF has a 1 year low of $58.47 and a 1 year high of $77.58.

About iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF

The iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF (ACWX) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the MSCI AC World ex USA index. The fund tracks the performance of a market-cap-weighted index of international stocks. It captures 85% of the publicly available market, thus excluding small-caps. ACWX was launched on Mar 26, 2008 and is managed by BlackRock.