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The problem he has with this is that it is foreign income. As a result, you are not getting the dividend tax credit. This is not something he would be interested in.

Has always liked this, and it is actually a core holding. Being Vanguard, it is very low cost. Rather than having 500 stocks, it has something like 580-600, of which about 300 would basically be categorized as mid-cap. You have a little better diversification.

Consumer Discretionary has been a pretty hot sector already. Price to Book is very high at around 5. If you’ve got a growing US economy and people are now getting the benefits, that means more discretionary money will be spent on big screen TVs, etc.

He likes Europe, but not in love with it, and is doing this for diversification purposes. Doesn’t see anything horrific in Europe, but it is always a basket case, but not the way it was 2 or 3 years ago. He is in this one tentatively.