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Here is KPP Financial Portfolio Manager, Luke Guerrero.

Good afternoon, fellow investors, and welcome back to the Tuesday, February 24th, 2026 edition

of InvestTalk. My name is Luke Guerrera. I'm a portfolio manager at KPP, and I'm also your host

over the next 50 minutes. I do take that responsibility. I don't take it lightly. I know that this show for a lot

of people is a way for them to catch up on the news, hear the stories that matter, and most

importantly get their finance and investment questions answered. So to that end, before we

talk about today's market performance and run down

our show topics, let's tackle our first caller question now. Justin, Luke, looking to get some

Brazil exposure, what are your thoughts on EWZ? EWZ? What do you think? Am I too late to dive on into a small position of my portfolio?

Thanks for the help.

EWZ is the I-Shares MSCII Brazil ETF.

So what it is is it is a index of large and mid-cap companies from the B3 exchange in

Brazil.

There are certain limits that they apply on these companies, one of them having to

be in complying with Rick requirements from the

U.S. Internal Revenue Code. Another being that no single issuer will exceed 25% and

that all issuers with weight above 5% do not go above 50. So there are some diversification

limits in there. It has about 48 holdings and reconstitutes,

I believe quarterly, which means those things won't always hold, right? Those limits are enforced

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