John DeGoey Vanguard MSCI EAFE Index ETF VEF-T COMMENT Aug 17, 2015

(A Top Pick Jan 23/12. Up 15.2%.) Low cost and broadly diversified.

(A Top Pick Feb 27/12. Up 13.26%.) Had a good year. Currency hedged and low cost.

(A Top Pick May 1/12. Up 18.5%.) You have to be invested in different parts of the world, even when you think you don’t want to be there, because that kind of diversification cannot only reward you on the upside, but also take away some of the downside.

(Top Pick May 1/12, Up 27.46%) A year ago people didn’t think Europe would be up this much. The bad news was already priced into the market.

(A Top Pick July 12/12. Up 27.43%.) This is Europe, Asia and far east and it is up so high, partially because of Japan.

Likes this because it gets you outside of the North American milieu but out to developed markets rather than emerging markets. A good play.

Japan has had the best of its rally. Likes UK and Europe and they make more sense but Europe is not fixed and the next crisis is in about 5 years there. Likes VGK because it excludes Japan.

Had owned this in the past. FTSE is an important index for him. This is all-CAP, as opposed to just the big CAPs like it formerly was. When they changed this, he got out of it. He prefers those that have just the blue chips. Prefers iShares MSCI EAFE (XIN-T).

It would have benefited nicely from Brexit. It made a low back in February. It is in an uptrend. If you are going to buy this today, you want to see it test the longer term channel, or break out above $35. We are going to see new data out of England, post Brexit in the near future. This will tell us how businesses have reacted.