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Though U.S. stocks are showering strong gains to investors, the international market is not behind.
The year 2023 recorded the best January in four years. The month will be remembered for the comeback of the Nasdaq index after a tough 2022.
In this article, I focus on the iShares MSCI ACWI ETF (ACWI) and how it compares to the Vanguard Total World Stock ETF (VT). For the longest common period since June 2008, ACWI currently lags VT by about 14%-points or 41 basis points per year.
ACWI invests in equities across the world, with a bias in favor of U.S. equities. The fund appears undervalued on a sub-consensus longer-term earnings growth trajectory.
During Refinitiv Lipper's fund-flows week that ended January 4, 2023, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including both conventional funds and ETFs) for the second week in three, pumping in a net $37.06 billion. Exchange-traded equity funds recorded $7.0 billion in weekly net outflows, marking the second week of outflows in three.
iShares Core Equity ETF Portfolio offers a low-cost way to own over 9,000 equities from across the entire investable universe. Holding an all-in-one exchange-traded fund like XEQT:CA can provide the portfolio diversification needed to allow investors to focus their capital on their highest conviction ideas.
U.S.-centric investors have been accustomed to even fewer declines. Equities had only one negative return of less than 5% during the same period. As earnings have continued to trend positively, dividend payouts - which tend to be far less volatile than stock prices - have shown continued growth.
ACWI invests across the world, including in the United States, in both developed and emerging markets. ACWI is essentially "equity beta", but arguably safer and more diversified than investing in the U.S. market alone.
These global fared better than the broader market indexes in the first nine months of 2022.
Seven “metaverse” funds, and only three stocks in common.