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With VUN, you get pretty much the entire US market; not too expensive at 16 bps. Keep in mind that the USD version, VTI, has a MER of 3 bps; be mindful, too, of foreign currency and US estate issues.
Over 3700 positions, market-cap weighted. Top 10 names represent about 20% of the portfolio. Lots of exposure to the tech space. Not all that different from the S&P 500.
If you think the US$ is going to be strengthening to the Cdn$, this one would serve you very well because you’re not only getting the performance of US stock market, but you also get the strength of the greenback. Has done quite well in the past year. You should probably have a US$ account to do it. If you have a Cdn$ account you are going to have to make a conversion and you might get hit on the conversion.