Not exact matches
I plan: 5 % — swing for the fences 10 % — save for
big blue chip bargain buys that pop up throughout the year 10 % — VNQ, other
than our primary residence, I have no exposure to RE, so this should help with that 15 % — VXUS, international index exposure 60 % — VTI, total stock
market index (as I get older, I will be also adding BND or a bond fund, but at 32, I'm working on building
equities!)
In 2017, investors poured more
than $ 160 billion into international
equity ETFs — almost as much as they did into U.S.
equity funds — and emerging
market funds were
big in - takers, with ETFs like the iShares Core MSCI Emerging
Markets ETF (IEMG) and the Vanguard FTSE Emerging
Markets ETF (VWO) among the year's most popular strategies.
Low inflation and booming labor
markets might make a good decision easier for the Fed, though that decision may have a
bigger impact on the
equity market than the credit
market and inflation.
When
equity is a small component as a percentage of
market value,
equities will return better
than when it is a
big component.
Really, the asset mix (allocation of
equities, debt and cash) plays a
bigger role in portfolio performance
than the actual allocation to specific
markets.