🌿👉 eToro Sign Up Link: https://med.etoro.com/B21108_A99492_TClick.aspx **eToro is a multi-asset investment platform. The value of your investments may go up or down. Your capital is at risk ** (I earn a commission if you sign up using my link / Sponsored by eToro) 🌿👉 Buy Mind Leaves a Coffee and support the channel: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mindleaves Note: These links are affiliate links. Thank you for the support xx Valuable content😉 Copy Trading for Beginners: https://youtu.be/TdZwUszI_HQ eToro Fee’s: https://youtu.be/8T4fZQAxWOE Retire Early Plan: https://youtu.be/W9L21iDIITQ Investing for Beginners: https://youtu.be/uJUsfnlAw_4 Time Stamps: 00:00 Intro 00:51 VXUS vs. VWO 09:13 Final Thoughts Both the VXUS and the VWO ETFs are popular choices to invest into for exposure to markets outside of the US because they both consist of stocks that are outside of the US market and that is exactly why I own both in my portfolio because they can serve as a hedge against a downturn within the US market. Economic downturns in one country or region can be offset by growth in another. So to explain it better, if the US market goes down for any reason, then in theory, my investment portfolio will still be doing okay with the VXUS and VWO in my midst. The VXUS ETF Also known as the Vanguard Total International Stock ETF. So this ETF is basically a tracking index that measures the performance of stocks issued by companies located in developed and emerging markets, thus outside the US. In a nutshell, if you buy the VXUS ETF, you invest outside the US. This ETF holds 7506 stocks and features 1 bond. Let’s have a look at the 10 largest holdings within VXUS. So there are definitely some familiar names like Alibaba, Nestle, Samsung and Toyota. The top 10 largest holdings take up just over 11% of the total VXUS ETF and Alibaba is the biggest hitter at 2.2%. And even though I am not familiar with all of these names on the list, some are quite familiar and seems to have been around forever. So just to give you a general idea of where most of VXUS stocks lie, 40% is invested within Europe and another 27% in Asia Pacific. Now how has this ETF done for the last decade and how much will it cost you to invest into it. So it’s only been around for just over 10 years now and growth has been okay, delivering under 6% in 10 years but really exploding since the pandemic crash last year like most conservative markets did. Usually ETFs are quite cheap to buy and Vanguards ETFs are certainly well priced. VXUS will cost you 80cents per $1000 you invest into it yearly. Quite cheap indeed. The VWO ETF Also known as the Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF. Just like its name states, this ETF invests in stocks of companies located in emerging markets around the world, such as Hong Kong China, Brazil, Taiwan, and South Africa. Again, invested outside of the US. This ETF holds 5208 stocks total. And looking at the top 10 largest holdings within VWO, some familiar names pop up again. Alibaba, Tencent, Naspers. So the top 10 within the VWO take a 23.37% portion of the total ETF. Therefore VWO is not as widely diversified as the VXUS ETF. As I already said VWO is an emerging market tracking index, so it not invested into Europe really or North America. There are a lot of Indian companies featuring in VWO, behind the Chinese market of course. So how has this ETF done for the last decade and how much will it cost you to invest into it? Looking at the chart, you can see it has actually not really performed that great over a 10 year span, delivering only close to a 4% growth. But like with most markets, if you had invested into the emerging markets ETF just after the pandemic crash, you would have had some great recovery growth at close to 30% in one year. The VWO also comes in a little bit more expensive than VXUS, with every $1000 you invest into the ETF costing you $1 annually. So still on the rather cheap side for investing into ETFs. Almost 5 months ago I invested around the same amount of money into both the VXUS ETF as well as the VWO ETF. Watch the video to see how my investment on these 2 ETFs did :) Thanks for watching! Images: www.unsplash.com Videos: Free Stock video by: www.videezy.com Music: Filmora Wondershare, YouTube Music, www.bensound.com