VGK - VGK: Showing Love For The Anti-Tech Play

2024-06-24 15:30:00 ET

Summary

• Europe has underperformed US markets since 2008, second only to Emerging Markets.
• Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF offers low-cost exposure to European equities, tracking the FTSE Developed Europe All Cap Index.
• VGK is diverse by country and holdings, with sector composition dominated by Industrials, Financials, and Health Care. No clear advantage over iShares Core MSCI Europe ETF (IEUR).

Europe. It's big. And ever since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, it has dramatically underperformed, as a region, against the US markets. The price ratio shows one of the greatest bear markets of underperformance in history, second only to Emerging Markets which have performed worse....

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