{"id":638,"date":"2011-03-20T11:55:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T11:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investing.kubasek.com\/2011\/03\/invest-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2012-01-02T12:02:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T12:02:59","slug":"invest-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"Invest in Japan?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barron’s has a lead article titled “Invest in Japan.”<\/a> What do you think? Time to jump in after the huge tragedy? From my own experience, tragedies are one of the best times to jump in. Take 9\/11, quick slide, nice and quick recovery. Will Japan be the same? Nobody really knows, especially with the current level of uncertainty.<\/p>\n

If you do want to invest, as I’m thinking about it, I think investing in ETFs is the smart way to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Exchange-Traded Funds<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ticker<\/strong><\/td>\nCurrency<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
FXY<\/td>\nCurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
JYN<\/td>\nBarclays iPath JPY\/USD<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
JYF<\/td>\nWisdomTree Dreyfus Japanese Yen<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stocks<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
EWJ<\/td>\niShares MSCI Japan Index<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DXJ<\/td>\nWisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity <\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DFJ<\/td>\nWisdomTree Japan SmallCap Dividend<\/a><\/span> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ITF<\/td>\niShares S&P\/Topix 150 Index<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
JSC<\/td>\nSPDR Russell\/Nomura Small Cap Japan<\/a><\/span> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SCJ<\/td>\niShares MSCI Japan Small Cap Index<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
JPP<\/td>\nSPDR Russell\/Nomura PRIME Japan<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barron’s has a lead article titled “Invest in Japan.” What do you think? Time to jump in after the huge tragedy? From my own experience, tragedies are one of the best times to jump in. Take 9\/11, quick slide, nice and quick recovery. Will Japan be the same? Nobody really knows, especially with the current level of uncertainty. If you do want to invest, as I’m thinking about it, I think investing in ETFs is the smart way to go. Exchange-Traded Funds Ticker Currency FXY CurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust JYN Barclays iPath JPY\/USD JYF WisdomTree Dreyfus Japanese Yen Stocks EWJ iShares MSCI Japan Index DXJ WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity  DFJ WisdomTree Japan SmallCap Dividend  ITF iShares S&P\/Topix 150 Index JSC SPDR Russell\/Nomura Small Cap Japan  SCJ iShares MSCI Japan Small Cap Index JPP SPDR Russell\/Nomura PRIME Japan<\/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":[85,86],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investing","tag-investing-3","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","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=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}