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John Hood
IShares Core S&P US Total Market
XUU-T
COMMENT
Feb 17, 2015
$20.200
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COMMENT
For a long-term investment, iShares Core S&P US Total Market (XUU-T) or iShares S&P 500 Index (XUS-T)? This has largely been a large cap recovery. He also likes the mid-caps. As the US recovery continues, that benefit is going to spread to the smaller caps. Right now he likes the US version. Just coming out of their recovery, he would be more going into the large caps as he has done in the past. However, he is fine with these.
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BUY
XUU vs. XSP to play the US market XSP is the S&P and CAD-hedged, while the XUU is the broad US market, including the small- and mid-caps without the CAD hedge. He prefers to play in USD, because the USD is a flight to safety when world markets struggle. You want to hold USD as a general rule.
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This drills down past large caps into micro caps, small caps, etc. If you want to be in this market, this is fine, but he is holding back from them because it is still a “large cap market” as far as he is concerned.