{"id":606,"date":"2006-10-02T21:56:41","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T21:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kubasek.com\/blog\/investing\/2006\/10\/international-etfs\/"},"modified":"2012-01-02T12:17:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T12:17:24","slug":"international-etfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"International ETFs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am just looking over the 2006 Semi-Annual iShares MSCI Series report I received today. I&#8217;m thinking, US economy will slow in the next year or two. Looking at the markets outside of US, I might want to invest in other assets.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, iShares Australia Index (EWA). 1 year return: 15.83%; 5 year return: 148%.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil Index (EWZ): 1 year: 70%; 5 years: 187%<\/p>\n<p>Canada Index (EWC): 1 year: 33%; 5 years: 103%<\/p>\n<p>Mexico Index (EWW): 1 year: 45%; 5 years: 194%<\/p>\n<p>Those are some impressive returns. I like Canada and Australia indexes: stable countries with very good results. I should have invested in Brazil when it went down a year or two ago; same with Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am just looking over the 2006 Semi-Annual iShares MSCI Series report I received today. I&#8217;m thinking, US economy will slow in the next year or two. Looking at the markets outside of US, I might want to invest in other assets. For instance, iShares Australia Index (EWA). 1 year return: 15.83%; 5 year return: 148%. Brazil Index (EWZ): 1 year: 70%; 5 years: 187% Canada Index (EWC): 1 year: 33%; 5 years: 103% Mexico Index (EWW): 1 year: 45%; 5 years: 194% Those are some impressive returns. I like Canada and Australia indexes: stable countries with very good results. I should have invested in Brazil when it went down a year or two ago; same with Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[79,84,85],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investing","tag-etf","tag-international","tag-investing-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}