VEU News and Press, Vanguard FTSE All World Ex US From 06/01/20

Introduction One of the most striking observation in the US is that even though the country is currently experiencing its worst riots since 1968, its worst economy since the Great Depression of the 1930s and its worst pandemic since the Spanish Flu in 2018, the equity market keeps recoveri...

SH: Today we have with us Tara Sinclair, an associate professor of economics and international affairs at George Washington University and a senior fellow of the Indeed Hiring Lab. Dr. Sinclair is also a research professor at the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) in Germany, a...

Since the advent of Gary Antonacci's Dual Momentum book, published in 2015, I've had a keen interest in this investing model. I've written a number of articles related to this method of investing and here is the link to one of the first . Since writing those first articles, I've made a few ...

Please go to the end to read a summation of this series' purpose. Let's start with a look at the weekly performance for the ETFs that compose the core portfolios: This was a very calm week; there was no meaningful change in four of the ETFs. For once, the [[TLT]] had the largest drop; ...

We saw previously that global concerns over the weak economic output in the next 12 to 18 months have significantly increased the demand for traditional safe-havens since the start of the year, especially the US dollar. Even though some economists are now expecting the USD to weaken in the nea...

At the end of this article is an explanation of the series. Let's start with a performance review of the main ETFs I track: Considering the size of some of the weekly sell-offs during the last six to eight weeks, this is a welcome period of relative calm. Oddly, smaller-cap indexes did be...

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. For others, these can comprise a core portfolio that represents a large perc...

Introduction The recovery in equities in the past two weeks caught many market participants by surprise as investors were preparing themselves for a sustained period of equity market weakness and elevated price volatility. Figure 1 shows that US equities ( SPY ) are up over 30% since their...

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. For others, these can comprise a core portfolio that represents a large percent...

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...