Eh? Apa?

Anyway you can have all kinds of international exposure via ETF with a much much lower management fees.

This post has been edited by gark: Jan 14 2015, 03:59 PM

Haha.. you comparing a blended fund with index... if you take the same blend, maybe you will see a different picture.

Also not all ETF is the same.

How about dividens? ETF pays em.. index do not.

Here is the performance of S&P 500 index fund I own... big difference from what you draw out. They have divvy yield of 1.83% as well.

500 Index Fund Inv (Annualized)
1 Year : 13.51%
3 Year : 20.22%
5 Year : 15.28%
10 Year : 7.55%
Inception : 11.10%

You can see the results here.

https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snap...ntExt=INT#tab=1

This post has been edited by gark: Jan 14 2015, 05:03 PM

You can buy 1 share in US market mah... but then your transaction fees will be high.

1 share now only cost you $190++

Not to mention the 'hidden' forex gain, that's not in the annualized gain.

This post has been edited by gark: Jan 14 2015, 05:09 PM

Of course it will.. this is not magic investment..

Index funds are not designed to outperform the index, it is designed to match.

So what you get is plain vanilla returns..

No boastful joy that your performance beat the index..

No tearful cry when your fund under perform the index..

You don't need to talk about it, don't need switching, don't need compare, don't need monitoring.. basically no need do nothing.

cause you are getting the AVERAGE performance, however from time to time there will be a few funds beating it.. but many many others will under performs it

This post has been edited by gark: Jan 14 2015, 05:27 PM

Thats why i never buy MY ETF..