Perfect Five-ETFs
My fifth pick for my new Perfect 5 ETF portfolio: iShares Emerging Markets (EEM) but with a caveat or two
I’m illustrating this post on adding the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) with a Chinese flag because that’s what you get (China) with this “diversified” emerging markets ETF. 10 of the first 20 stocks, ranked by percentage of the portfolio each holding makes up, is a Chinese company.
My fourth pick for my new Perfect 5 ETF portfolio: What to do about fixed income?
Now we get to a really, really hard pick. It’s so hard because our rules, assumptions, and portfolio allocations for fixed income assets is so heavily influenced by a fifteen year period that’s now over. Done with. Gone.
My third pick for my new ETF portfolio: A gold ETF
For my third pick for my new Perfect 5 ETF Active Passive Portfolio I looked to fill the Commodities slot in the portfolio with an ETF that would provide a hedge for the portfolio if the market tumbled but that would also produce a positive return if the market didn’t fall but other recent trends continued. The pick that achieves those two goals is the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLD)
My second pick for my new Perfect 5 ETF portfolio, a European stock ETF
For my second pick for my new actively allocated, passive ETF portfolio, I’m going to keep working on the equity core. To yesterday’s pick of the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV), today I’m adding the SPDR Euro Stoxx 50 ETF (FEZ). This ETF concentrates on European blue chip stocks and tracks the Stoxx 50 Net Return Index. This ETF will fill the Non-U.S. Developed Markets slot in the portfolio. Why a European stock fund?
My first pick for my new Perfect Five ETF portfolio
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Why a portfolio of “passive” ETFs requires active management by you–announcing my new ETF portfolio to do just that
Can I clear up one bit of confusion? ETFs are indeed passively managed investment vehicles. Their portfolios passively follow indexes rather than allocating money into the picks of a fund manager. But portfolios of ETFs put together by investors aren’t–and indeed can’t be–passively managed. And that’s why, this week, I’m launching my new Perfect 5 Active Passive ETF portfolio.
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