Cooper Financial Group Lowers Stake in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF $IEFA

Cooper Financial Group lessened its stake in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (BATS:IEFA) by 67.5% during the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 11,484 shares of the company’s stock after selling 23,849 shares during the quarter. Cooper Financial Group’s holdings in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF were worth $1,109,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in the stock. Colony Family Offices LLC raised its stake in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 2.1% in the fourth quarter. Colony Family Offices LLC now owns 650,927 shares of the company’s stock worth $58,232,000 after purchasing an additional 13,562 shares during the last quarter. Whittier Trust Co. grew its position in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 5.1% during the fourth quarter. Whittier Trust Co. now owns 459,859 shares of the company’s stock valued at $42,105,000 after buying an additional 22,502 shares during the period. Halbert Hargrove Global Advisors LLC increased its stake in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 1.6% in the 4th quarter. Halbert Hargrove Global Advisors LLC now owns 1,852,854 shares of the company’s stock valued at $165,756,000 after purchasing an additional 29,039 shares in the last quarter. CENTRAL TRUST Co increased its position in shares of iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 12.9% in the first quarter. CENTRAL TRUST Co now owns 97,343 shares of the company’s stock valued at $8,812,000 after buying an additional 11,097 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Planned Solutions Inc. increased its holdings in iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF by 24.8% in the 4th quarter. Planned Solutions Inc. now owns 128,512 shares of the company’s stock worth $11,497,000 after acquiring an additional 25,528 shares in the last quarter.

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF Stock Up 1.1%

IEFA opened at $101.08 on Friday. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $97.12 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $95.47. iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF has a 52-week low of $84.11 and a 52-week high of $101.28. The company has a market cap of $172.85 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.18 and a beta of 0.84.

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF Profile

The iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (IEFA) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the MSCI EAFE IMI index, a market-cap-weighted index of developed-market stocks in Europe, Australasia and the Far East, and excludes North America IEFA was launched on Oct 18, 2012 and is managed by BlackRock.