VEU News and Press, Vanguard FTSE All World Ex US From 12/04/19

Foreword In a special double issue, December 2019, Fortune published its Investor's Guide 2020 featuring 40 stocks for the new decade: “ The companies that are going to outperform the market aren’t big enough to offset the companies that are going to underperform.”...

2019 has been a tremendous year for equities globally following the significant correction we saw in the last quarter of 2018; the MSCI World index is up nearly 20% since January, experiencing one of the strongest yearly gains in the past cycle after the 27-percent rise in 2009 and 22% gain in...

(Source: Pexels/Suzy Hazelwood ) In general, value investing has performed poorly over the past ten years compared to most bull markets. This is even truer abroad, as most international equities indices are still below their 2008 peak. Of course, value investing, and specifically internati...

By Erik Knutzen The events and data of recent weeks make us want to err on the side of caution. Our Asset Allocation Committee’s quarterly Outlook will come out this week, and the headline is that members see a return to “two-tier growth.” The last time we used...

Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US ETF (NYSEARCA: VEU ) - $0.3273 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 0.00% as of Aug 31. Payable Sep 27; for shareholders of record Sep 25; ex-div Sep 24. More news on: Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US ETF, Dividend News, News on ETFs, ,

There may be 3 major portfolio opportunities that are largely missed by investors. These may be the biggest holes in our portfolio construction. International stock exposure International bond exposure, including developing markets REIT exposure US and Canadian investors are well k...

Marking the third anniversary of the Brexit referendum, I published an article yesterday that demonstrated the underperformance of U.K. stocks versus stocks in the U.S. over the past three years. As part of the article, I detailed the sector differences between the FTSE 100 and the S&P 5...

Last week was a fascinating week for global markets. The European Central Bank, Federal Reserve, and Bank of Japan all hinted at future helpings of monetary accommodation to come. In the United States, the S&P 500 ( SPY ) set fresh all-time highs while the 10-year Treasury yield briefly mo...

The Good 2019, thus far (Friday, May 3rd), is the best start to a year for stocks since 1987. Not only that the S&P 500 ( SPY ) index set another new all-time high this week, but we haven't experienced a drawdown greater than 2.48%. Furthermore, 103 consecutive months of job gr...

Investment Thesis Despite the fact that the iShares MSCI EAFE ETF ( EFA ) pays a stable dividend covered by net investment income and matches the size of competitors in the foreign equity universe, it commands a much higher expense ratio, while managing a smaller portfolio than its peers. In...