While U.S. investors can remember plenty of times when stocks here in the U.S. rallied when one party controlled the House and the other ran the Senate, a look back at Japanese politics and its impact on ETFs is worthwhile. Abe, back for a second go-round, is Japan’s seventh prime minister since 2007. EWJ lost 29.5 from the start of 2007 through the end of last year.
WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund
ETF Trends editorial team contributed to this post. Tom Lydon’s clients own shares of DXJ.