Comments on: Vanguard’s New Europe Pacific ETF

By: Sun

Sun — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:02:13 +0000

I don’t own VEU, but I think the fund is a good choice to invest in international stock markets for the same reason for owning the entire US stocks: you get the diversification and average return and don’t have to worry about making a wrong choice. Right now the emerging market is hot, but quite volatile. In the long term, I feel emerging markets could offer better returns than developed markets.

Luke:I am afraid I don’t have a good idea on what to do with your EFA. If you have a large position, I don’t think you want to sell it if the fund is held in your taxable account. Just keep it and start to use VEA to replace it. If your position is small, selling it won’t have a big impact on your taxes. If you do a swap, you are still selling the fund, right?

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By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:12:27 +0000

Well this is good news…This has me thinking of ending my position in EFA for the time being and starting up in VEA…

It’s good news, but I just don’t want to have to sell EFA and do all of the cost basis come tax time to basically do an identical swap…

Thoughts?

By: skylog

skylog — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:37:41 +0000

this looks interesting. i have been building my position in VEU, and i was wondering what your thoughts are regarding VEU? if any? personally, i like the fact that VEU has exposure (17.00% if my memory serves me right) to some emerging markets as well as those develolped in europe and asia. keep up the great work on the site.