VEU News and Press, Vanguard FTSE All World Ex US From 04/07/20

As the COVID-19 virus spread around the world, sending markets into turmoil, our Asset Allocation Committee (“the AAC” or “the Committee”) met by video conference because governments were telling citizens not to leave their homes. These are extraordinary circumsta...

As I noted when I relaunched this series , active investment largely underperforms the market. As a result, a core portfolio of ETFs that provide a broad range of market coverage will suffice for some investors. The purpose of the Passive-Aggressive investor is to provide the reader with...

Let's start with an overview of the markets. International economies are struggling to deal with the virus outbreak. On the plus side, fiscal and monetary authorities have taken unprecedented action to mitigate the damage. But short-term, the numbers will look like entire countries were hi...

In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable. - Robert Arnott The Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US ETF ( VEU ) is something you need to have on your buy-list as the world starts to recover from the coronavirus, as it is one of the better value plays out there. A look at its underlyi...

It was another brutal week in the markets. Let's start with the performance tables for the main ETFs I track:The Treasury market moved modestly higher while the total bond market ETFs were off modestly. All the equity ETFs were off sharply; the only difference was the degree of the decline....

Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US ETF (NYSEARCA: VEU ) - $0.1177 . Payable Mar 26; for shareholders of record Mar 24; ex-div Mar 23. More news on: Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US ETF, Dividend News, News on ETFs, ,

For many years, as I have tracked the progress of the final cyclical bull market of the secular Supercycle from 1949, I have contended that global stocks, excluding the U.S., had entered a bear market in 2007 and would largely fail to confirm the new highs in U.S. markets. On any time scale, o...

I've stripped out the dividend aristocrat section and made that into its own column. Over the coming weeks, I'll fold the recommendations back into this column. Let's start with a look at the overall backdrop: Last week, international markets fell sharply as the coronavirus continue...

By Carsten Brzeski, Chief Economist, Eurozone and Global Head of Macro. Following some big market and central bank moves, we have updated our forecasts for growth and policy rates. Find our what our economists are looking for in the major economies over the next few months as the globe de...

Dual Momentum investing is a strategy developed by Gary Antonacci and explained in great detail in his book by the same name. For a quick overview, check out this article here on Seeking Alpha . Before progressing much further, it is useful to explain the differences in the model used for t...