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For a small cap ETF, IWM or OUSM or IJR? Granddaddy is IWM, which has already had a pretty good year. For small cap in the US, go with this because it has liquidity. You can use the options market if you want something fancier. Be careful, as this are subject to US estate taxes. In Canada, use an active manager in this space. Canadian small-cap needs an active manager, rather than an ETF.
IWM or OUSM or IJR? Granddaddy is IWM, which has already had a pretty good year. For small cap in the US, go with this because it has liquidity. You can use the options market if you want something fancier. Be careful, as this are subject to US estate taxes. In Canada, use an active manager in this space. Canadian small-cap needs an active manager, rather than an ETF.
Use it for all of a TFSA? Never put all of any portfolio in any one name. Diversify. ZWU takes utilities stocks and sells options against it. You give up performance for income, so you don’t get where you want to go. He’d dissuade someone from using this one. Use a global ETF. Or even make it simple with 50% in XBB and 50% in something like XWD, and on your birthday, just rebalance.
(A Top Pick June 1 / 2017, Up 5%) EM used to be resource-oriented from South America. It’s now an Asia ex-Japan index, dominated by IT and by China, Korea, and Taiwan with names like Tencent and Alibaba. Costs only 25 basis points. EM bore the brunt of Trump’s screaming, but will bounce back when this is over.
(A Top Pick June 1 / 2017 , Up 4%) Still likes it. Core part of their portfolio. Investor confidence level goes down outside of US. This is the equivalent of the S&P 500 outside of the US. Mega-cap global index. Not on the tech side, much more cyclical. Doing better before Trump got involved. Last 6 weeks, international ETFs hit hard. Trump is just negotiating, and these stocks will bounce. Value is better in Europe and Japan than in NA.
Tech ETFs right now? Too late for this. Had a fantastic run. The S&P 500 is the harbinger of all equities, at 60% of the market. Driven by tech stocks, which are mainly US. Everything good about tech is already there. If anything goes wrong, they’ll be hit. Look to 2001-02 for the tech wreck, though now it’s a much more solid market.
ZWU or ZWB? Add more to both? Utilities and banks, covered call. Wouldn’t add more, and be especially careful with the utilities one in a rising rate environment. Might want to use the Vanguard VXC, world index excluding Canada. Inexpensive, liquid. Encourage people to look outside Canada for growth.
ZWU or ZWB? Add more to both? Utilities and banks, covered call. Wouldn’t add more, and be especially careful with the utilities one in a rising rate environment. Might want to use the Vanguard VXC, world index excluding Canada. Inexpensive, liquid. Encourage people to look outside Canada for growth.
