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WisdomTree Pacific ex-Japan Total Div (DND)

This is an ETF fund, like stock, can be traded in real time, and at any time.

In areas, it mainly has Australia as 60%, Hong Kong as 25%, Singapore as 10%.

The reasons I see this etf good are:

1) I pretty much like these 3 areas. Australia is kind of self-contained area in many areas (in my mind), so less affected by many other factors in the world. Hong Kong, of course, one of the leading area in Aisa, and pretty similar to mainland China (and will benefit from it). Singapore is kind of related to US in terms of performance, but magnified (it goes up and down more quickly than the US market).

2) The etf uses a different way to index the stocks, based on stock's dividend. This, in theory, is demostrated to be a pretty nice way for passive fund like this.

The cons I can think of are:

1) this fund has relatively short hostory, < 1 year, so we can not know its long term performance.

2) it is in Asia, so it has all the risks associated with other Asia funds.

So do your own math before buy it or not.

At the same time, I may suggest another 3 ETF that you can watch together with the above DND:

iShares MSCI Australia Index (EWA)

iShares MSCI Hong Kong Index (EWH)

iShares MSCI Singapore Index (EWS)

These three funds are passive index funds for the same areas. Please note that these three use different index method from DND. So you will find it interesting to observe these 4 etfs together.

Last, do your own math before spending any money on them.

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