This Global ETF Could Help Protect You From the "Sell America" Trade

For most of the past 15 years, the U.S. stock market has been the envy of the world. Since the start of 2011, the S&P 500 index is up 441%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 is up by more than 1,000%.Equity markets in the rest of the world have also grown, but at paces that have lagged Wall Street. The share price of the Vanguard Total International Stock ETF (NASDAQ: VXUS), which tracks stock markets outside the U.S., is up by only 62% in the past 15 years. Even on a total return basis (factoring in the reinvestment of its dividends, which have yielded an average of 2.8% since the fund's inception in January 2011), it's only up by about 156%, with average annualized returns of 6.3%. That's still well behind the major U.S. indexes.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool