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Originally Posted by sacX
yeah VWO added Russia which was something that EEM has had. I've got a bunch of VGK as well, plus smaller amounts of lots of the iShares individual countries, I love the country based ETFs  |
Yeah, VGK made sense against IEV just on the lower MER considering the top 20 stocks in each and proportions of were almost the same and it holds a couple hundred companies more in the portfolio.
I am always checking myself if I am becoming too much like a kid in the candy store with all the single country ETFs...and if I am overly diversified without the upside and thus paying a much higher MER and extra transaction costs and I end up mostly just mirroring a simple EFA and EEM strategy in the first place. I like to pair my asset clases/regions/countries....with an actively managed mutual fund or two or three so I am juggling dozens of funds and ETF's and so am out of control with buying them and looking at some of the new Wisdom Tree ones now...