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which Turnbull bought in July last year. VGT’s top five holdings are Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and IBM. jurisdiction is the Cayman Islands, because…reasons. There’s no public information on what it holds. Then there’s the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF. This Fund pays dividends of around US$0.40 every month or so. It has bonds from a variety of big corporations. Interestingly, most are from the US communications services market. There were a number of others on the list, which Turnbull got rid of after he was elected in 2013. Those included iShares JPMorgan USD Emer Mkt Bnd Fd ETF and iShares MSCI Brazil Index (ETF) There’s also the Deutsche X-trackers MSCI Japan Hedged Eq This fund tracks the MSCI Japan US Dollar Hedged Index. It provides exposure to Japanese equities, plus a hedge for the yen/US dollar exchange rate. Its top holdings include Toyota, Mitsubishi and Honda. The takeaway from this? Malcolm Turnbull likes ETFs. Which, like he said, can be kind of boring. But Turnbull has also bought in to a number of actively managed funds. For example, there’s the 3G Natural Resources Offshore Fund. This Fund is run by multi-billion-dollar global firm 3G Capital. 3G is based in Brazil. The Fund’s nominated In other words, a significant amount of exposure to emerging markets. In July this year, he added Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Domestic Debt Fund, Inc. But EDD isn’t looking for growth. It looks for government debt securities (bonds) in emerging countries. So really, it’s just another fixed income pick.” This is not just how it works in Australia, or in the US with the FDA for example, but this is the signature of power all over the world in its modern form. http://themindunleashed.com/2017/03/australian- prime-minister-wife-tied-pharma-pushing- mandatory-vaccination.html