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Yep, I buy ACWX as a hedge
Yeah ACWX has been kicking the shit out of VOO this year. Like 50% higher returns. People will post literally anything on here
No one knows. We are all gambling right now. I have decided I am BTD but I am not trying to be a hero and think I can pick the correct stocks. I am buying mostly $VT (world stocks plus US) and $ACWX (world stocks ex US). I would BTD on indices here over individual stocks if you are willing to gamble right now. But do not buy on margin or buy with cash you will need in the next 1-2 months. We could go lower.
$VT (world plus US), $ACWX (world ex US), $EWY (South Korea), $EWJ (Japan). I also bought $GLD but I'm less optimistic about Gold. I do believe Trump has done damage to the American brand despite my posts that many here are overreacting to DJT. So I am investing more money outside the US than w/i US.
$ACWX, $GLD, $EWY, $EWJ I wanted 25% $TLT, 25% Gold, 25% World ex US, 25% Asia Pacific I'm still a gambler that believes in cycles. I like Asia Pacific growth. The best rock n roll is coming from Japan and South Korea right now. I am a big believer that economies that are growing spend & take more risks with money on the arts : ) I am looking at World plus US ETF and something like the $SPY next. Individual stocks cause too much stress. Life is too short. Good luck.
I am as bearish as you are, But you have to have some skin in the game. Look at buying gold & a world ex-US etf if you don't want to buy these stocks. I bought $ACWX but there all basically the same. $ACWX and Gold are currently 50% of my port after BTD in both pretty heavy today and each is equal now to my 25% position in $TLT position. I do have big positions in $EWY and $EWJ but many here don't like my bet on Asia Pacific. You don't have to buy American overpriced stocks.
You can blame me. I just sold all but $20k of $TLT today. I will wait and buy $SGOV at the beginning of April if this bear doesn't get his $VT and $ACWX market crash low to buy : ) Who f\*ck cares about missing this month's $TLT divy payment. I want my cash and I want it now. I'm fine hiding out in cash & soybeans until then.
Yeah I never really looked at $ACWX, but it looks to track a different benchmark than $VXUS. Appears $ACWX filters out some of the weeds in small and micro-caps, $VXUS is more of a grab it all. You'll have some overlap in core international holdings in $VT and $ACWX, but that doesn't matter in my opinion so long as your target allocation is met. I have some overlapping holdings and have been rethinking how to simplify, so this was already top of my mind lol.
TYVM. $VT and $VXUS would be my 50/50 for my non trading account. I might just stay with $ACWX and start $VT for the other 50% then.
These World Stocks have had half their recent gains b/c they are/were a part of the short USD trade and half their growth due to repatriation of USD held abroad being invested back in their home economies. This trade was working great until Trump bombing Iran. Crude Oil is sold in USD so when crude oil prices go up then countries need more USD to buy the higher priced oil. The Asian Pacific area is mostly an energy importer not exporter so they get sucker punched again. With all that said I agree with you and I am in this trade and have been buying $EWY (South Korea) and $EWJ (Japan) for months now as I started buying $ACWX (World ex-US) this week. I believe we are in a new long term cycle where financials, industrials, and manufacturing outperform technology. The countries that started repatriating their USD and investing that capital back home are not going to stop due to recent events such as the Iran war. If anything they are going to be more convinced that they need to speed up that process. And these foreign economies are not as tech heavy as the US so they aren't investing the same high percentage of GDP on tech as the USA. The US markets (the $SPY and $QQQ) are indeed too tech heavy in market cap concentration and those that believe technology can't be replaced as market leaders haven't read history or studied cycles. With all that said a simple World ex US ETF doesn't have the US problem with market cap concentration in just a few stocks or sector so you wouldn't just have to bet on just the Asia Pacific economies. I would consider these recent events as an opportunity to buy although may be diversify and go 50% Asia Pacific, 50% World ex-US. I moved my 401K into a similar World ex-US mutual fund 6 months ago. My 401k really only had 1 option that wasn't US stocks and didn't offer World plus US. Now this is a riskier investment strategy as there will be more volatility as we are seeing these past 2 weeks. The US economy for all its faults and over reliance on tech is sheltered b/c the US economy is a net energy producer.
I have a very small position in $ACWX but everyone keeps suggesting $VXUS for World ex-US ETF's. Is there really a difference before I start DCA into a World ex-US fund? The other would be the diff b/w $VT and $VTI? I'm looking for more of a split b/w World +US and a World ex-US allocation vs many 50/50 $SPY and $QQQ for my non-trading accounts.
Buy $EWY and $DE next. I have the uncanny superpower to buy market tops. In all seriousness I'm in the process of moving to 20% $TLT, 20% $GLD, 20% $VT, and 20% $ACWX, 20% individual stocks/ETF mix. I was previously 50% $TLT, 25% $GLD, 25% in stocks. This volatility this week has everything out of whack thou & is very messy. I haven't started my 20% goal towards $VT since that cash is currently all over the place and I have all this cash from selling quite a bit of $TLT yesterday.
I do suggest buying ETF's that are not the $SPY and $QQQ. The AI big tech stocks are too concentrated into both indices. There are problems under the hood that Trump is going to be unable to cover up for much longer. Why not DCA into $VT or better yet a World ex US ETF like $ACWX? Taiwan Semi makes up 4% of most World Ex US ETF by market cap and Samsung is nearly 2%. But there are no other stocks above 2% in most World Ex-US indices. That's the danger that could tank $QQQ and $SPY. They are both over-concented w/ over 40% market cap in 6-10 stocks. You live in Canada right? You don't have the USD. Maybe $GLD? $XLU?
Hey WSB loser scoreboard watcher. Why don't you put up the YTD gains of the $GLD, $RSP, $EWY, $EWJ, $ACWX, $XLE vs $QQQ??? Why are all you losers looking at the same stocks in the same sector making lower highs & lower lows???
Who's the bear? WSB betting on $QQQ? Or the $RSP, $GLD, $CAT, $ACWX, $EWY peeps???
Check your 1 yr returns vs $GLD? or $ACWX? or $EWY or $EWJ? I think you tech bros don't know the dif b/w BTD above & below the 50 DMA. Bears are winning.
There is always that possibility. But when you are 50% in cash or boring $TLT you can always take a swing for the fence now & then. All world markets are also not the same. If you compare $ACWX vs $EWY on the 5 yr charts I could see why you might say the latter could've had a blow-off top. The former? Naw.
Global will include US such as Vanguard’s VT, State Street’s SPGM, and iShares ACWI etfs, unless it’s clear the U.S. isn’t included (ex-U.S.), such as the ACWX etf. Probably to take advantage of the dollar acting differently as the iShares products track very well for traders. It’s not just the U.S., as there’s a developed global ETF without Japan (iShares Kokusai etf ..TOK), due to some wanting to avoid it due to underperformance since the early 1990s (or maybe adding a cheaper Japan etf and maybe an emerging index ETF) . Most of the time there’s an “x” like VECX .. Vanguard’s new emerging mkt etc ex-China.
I bought $ACWX yesterday which is basically the same ETF. I also bought a bit of $EWY yesterday that was down 15% earlier this morning so I got you beat. So I doubled down and bought more of both this morning like any good degenerative gambler would do. I like to use the rule of half. I always buy half of the amount of any holding I am planning to buy. And then I wait a couple days or 1 day if we have a red bloodbath like today and decide if i still want to buy the other half of my original planned order amount.
I just spent 3 months salary BTD. I bought $CAT, $DE, $PHYS (Gold), $EWJ (Japan), $EWW (Mexico), $EWY (South Korea), $ACWX (World Ex US), $VT (World plus US). Let's see how trying to time the market works vs DCA. I believe peak fear is already here. We'll prolyl get a TACO Trump tweet any minute now.
We can learn to walk & chew gum at the same time. Do 2 things at once. Go half & half w/ $SPY and $ACWX for example. Or 1/2 $SPY and 1/2 $VT. Then choose your 10% gamble.
I genuinely do appreciate the response. I know I'm double dipping (I think it's a 50% overlap b/t VOO and QQQ) but don't really care at this point. I'm not trying to optimize ETFs to the fullest. I simply think of the zoomed out chart. VOO and QQQ will return hopefully continue to return somewhere in the range of 8-15% until I start re-balancing for retirement and the small cap ETFs give me exposure to what VOO and QQQ don't. I considered VXUS (looked now and ACWX is basically the same return as VXUS) but it's outperformance has only been for the past year or so. Maybe it'll prove foolish in the long run but I'm good with the exposures I have.
I did alot of buying this morning. No US stocks, all foreign ETF's. Bought $ACWX, $EWY, and $EWJ. I don't think foreign cash is in a huge ass hurry to BTD in USA assets at this point & time.
International stocks. $ACWX, $EWY and $EWJ.
Same, hard to know when to trim. Saw yesterday that it is the largest holding inside of ACWX which seems to explain some of its resiliency with other AI-related names being down YTD
Sell all the Tesla immediately. Sell all of your individual stocks if you’re not going to monitor your portfolio closely. Split half your money across SPY (S&P500) and RSP (equal weight s&p500), and half across something like IEMG (emerging market index) and IEUR (Europe index) or just ACWX (all-world except US) if you want to keep it simple.
Why not just add VEU or ACWX in addition to SPY?? That will give you all world without selling
VXUS is big, and iShares offers their IXUS with less small cap. Also VEU is similar to VSUX and IXUS but with even less small cap (nothing against small cap, but for strict mkt share portfolios, it really does not really affect anything). There’s other choices like iShares ACWX that covers non U.S. large to mid cap but the fees are a bit higher. Another idea is dividing non-US into “developed” and “emerging” like iShares IDIV and IEMG respectively, or Vanguard’s VEA and VWO. Should keep with a MSCI or FTSE index. Mine are 4:1 SGDW at 0.03 er with SCHE at 0.05 er (SPDR and Schwab), .. though I do this to just get cheap non-US large-to-mid caps (no geopolitics, though I like having Korea as a smaller % of DW, FTSE’s developed category, instead of MSCI’s emerging mkt category). Why? I’d rather have expenses working on tracking large to mid cap instead of small caps which won’t really move the needle, but I digress.
This is why I like ETFs like ACWX, LVHI, DFIV, GCOW etc.
I modified my investments to be based more on international stocks giving equal weight to each sector. (Compare the last 6 months of ACWX to S&P500 and you’ll see this was a good move ). My stocks in mines have been doing extremely well too.
Just compare the $ACWX and $VOO for the past year. Business cycles are decoupled and no longer global, I see higher return in European markets for the next couple of years
all-world VTIAX VTPSX ACWX Europe VEUSX VYMI Emerging market VWO
There are major indexes for many countries: EWU (UK) EWC (Canada) DAX (Germany) The list goes on. There is also ACWX which focuses on non-US companies.
ACWX, 30% gains and mostly avoided the US shitshow
nice to see someone actually talking about investments on here: EEM (broad emerging markets) EET/EDC (leveraged version, be careful here... does poorly in a flat or down market) ACWX (includes developed markets too, so less risky overall) EEMA (Asia focussed) ILF (South America focussed, probably has a very long runway due to macro political and economic changes. As always, not fa. do your own research
Nope. Because everyone is wrong and there are no shortage of talking heads ready to sow fear. The U.S. stock market makes up less than half of the $127 trillion global equity market. MSCI All Country World Index ex-U.S. (ACWX) hit new all-time highs recently. By definition, this index contains zero American companies. It's Europe, Japan, China, Canada, Taiwan, India, Australia - the rest of the world. And while they keep yelling about "U.S. concentration" and "only a handful of stocks making new highs.” The reality is the opposite: More stocks than ever are going up. Even with the S&P 500 up 15% this year, on pace to double its average annual return, the United States is still one of the worst-performing stock markets in the world in 2025. The trend is up. And these aren't tired, late-cycle trends. They're fresh breakouts no one is paying attention to. Everyone's too busy whining about their quantum stocks or complaining that a few U.S. names have "too big" a market cap. That's fine. By the time they finally notice what's happening down here, we'll be the ones selling them our shares.
\> Are you shifting some allocation outside the U.S. because of this? Got stoned and you missed it. Past six months, VOO = +23%. ACWX = +17%.
Chat disagrees Short answer: the S&P 500 has outperformed the rest of the world over the last 5 years. • S&P 500 (IVV) 5-yr average annual total return: ~16.6% (USD, dividends reinvested, to Aug 31, 2025).  • Rest of world (ACWI ex-U.S., ACWX) 5-yr average annual total return: ~10.1% (USD, dividends reinvested, to Aug 31, 2025).  • Cumulatively, that’s roughly ~111% for the S&P 500 vs ~62% for ACWI ex-U.S. over 5 years. 
Why no international holdings? You can easily improve your Sharpe ratio by simply adding a 20-30% position to something like ACWX. And especially if your concern is centered around US macro why not diversify your macro exposure to it instead of picking up bonds. If your investment horizon is long enough why have any bonds? Just go full equity risk premium. Timing the market almost never works.
You could gradually reduce S&P 500 exposure and allocate it into broad international indices like VEU or ACWX. Keep a smaller U.S. allocation if you want growth, but avoid concentrated tech exposure.
When did you get in IGOV? It closed at $42 which is almost 52 week high. For international would you recommend ACWX or VXUS?
Not that which of swing, Nov 12 I moved 40% of my us stocks to gold, and moved not into bonds. Moved most of my US into brk.b as it was more diversified into bonds as well. January 15th I moved not outside the US with ACWX. Recently moved some from gold into some us banking stocks. So I am probably still 30% us, but completely out of the index. But would like to be closer to 10% if I get another exit.
Wait. Converted all RRSP and TFSA to cash yesterday at noon. Never been one to try and time the markets but economic numbers for Q1 are going to be BAD as the government, regulatory, and social support backbone of the USA is being gutted. Currently all in CBIL. I will be buying back to a 50:50 probably starting at -10 to -20% and my 50% stocks will be iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF | ACWX because even though staying out of the USA market will probably hurt my returns in the long term, I am in as much of a boycott the USA position for the last month as I can and especially going forward as they attack our sovereignty. 51st state? F-YOU Trump.
That I don't know, but the allocation might change over time anyway. Maybe buy some thing like ACWX and separately an etf tracking the S&P500, it seems easier that way.
I’ve decided on the following: 1. TLT - Should maintain value or even increase if the economy worsens. Pays a dividend in the meantime. Also, the Trump admin has repeatedly said they want to get the 10 yr rate down. TLT would appreciate in this instance. 2. SPLV - Low volatility stocks appreciate in case we are still in a bull market and lose a lot less than SPY in a bear market. 3. ACWX - Most of the “overpriced” stocks are in the USA. Having exposure to equities is important to maintain purchasing power; buying stocks that are cheaper may help avoid a big crash. As well, individuals and institutions may want to diversify outside the USA b/c of this administration. 4. BTAL - Not really a long term hold. But can appreciate significantly in the event of a crash and not lose much or even gain in a continuing bull market. 5. CTA - Helps maintain purchasing power if commodities take off. 6. IYR - Helps maintain purchasing power by investing in real estate. Should do well if 10 yr yield comes down. 7. TSLQ - Who among us can resist shorting the world’s biggest most overpriced meme stock? Plan to take profits on BTAL/CTA/TSLQ as they come. These aren’t good long term holds.
I’m thinking: 1. SPLV 2. BTAL 3. TLT 4. IYR 5. CTA 6. TSLQ 7. ACWX Decided against GLD b/c it is already overbought.
Great to see you starting early! For international exposure, consider broad-market ETFs like Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US (VEU) or iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF (ACWX). These offer a good mix of growth and stability by investing in global stocks outside the U.S. Since you're young and comfortable with risk, these funds can provide long-term growth potential while keeping things simple. Best of luck with your investing journey!
ACWX - all world ex us VEO - emerging markets EMXC - emerging markets ex China (pick one EM so they don’t overlap)
I use ACWX as a proxy for ex-US in my watchlist. Of the top ten holdings ASML, Novo Nordisk, Shell, and Tencent are up more than 1%
You can invest in the stocks underlying some of the indexes that MSCI publishes. For example US-domiciled fund ACWX tracks the MSCI All Country World Index ex-US Index. Similar funds exist domiciled elsewhere if you aren't in the US. If you are in the US, I would recommend VXUS based on the FTSE Global All Cap ex US Index instead, as it's cheaper and holds more stocks.
If you want to stay as passive as possible, then the best shot would be something like iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF (ACWX ticker) - you get a fairly balanced exposure to many countries around the world. You can read up here: https://www.ishares.com/us/products/239594/ishares-msci-acwi-ex-us-etf
Both personally and professionally I’ll weight according to long run index weightings. That way I’m not rebalancing my portfolios as frequently while still approximately benefiting from the market trend. For example if you wanted to approximate the long run Russell 3000 weighting for small, mid, and large companies you could have a domestic portfolio like: 36% IVE - Large Value 36% IVW - Large Growth 9% IJJ - Mid Value 9% IJK - Mid Growth 5% IJS - Small Value 5% IJT - Small Growth Combine international and fixed income to arrive at (60/40 portfolio for example): 15.12% IVE - Large Value 15.12% IVW - Large Growth 3.78% IJJ - Mid Value 3.78% IJK - Mid Growth 2.10% IJS - Small Value 2.10% IJT - Small Growth 18% ACWX - Developed International/EM 40% AGG - US Fixed Income
Happy to give a suggestion. One thing to note if you’re going the passive route is the index construction methodologies. Depending on the benchmark index underneath the fund it can determine the exposure you have to certain market components. For example, the S&P benchmark indices have an underlying profitability requirement for inclusion that acts as a quality filter on companies. Compare this to an index like the Russell 3000 which does not have that same requirement and holdings can differ somewhat significantly. Domestic ETFs for consideration: Large Value - IVE Large Growth - IVW Mid Value - IJJ Mid Growth - IJK Small Value - IJS Small Growth - IJT International and emerging market equities in an ETF wrapper are harder to find value/growth passive options that encapsulate a great degree of the universe so it’s likely best to go with an MSCI World Ex US product here (ACWX). Fixed income, unless you have a tangible opinion on yield curve shape, duration, and convexity, can arguably be achieved best passively through US Aggregate exposure (AGG). Active funds are a similar thought process, just requires manager due diligence and comfort with portfolio managers theses and strategies underlying the investment shop.
VXUS is developed and developing markets excluding US, expense ratio 0.07%. ACWX is the iShares alternative but has an expense ratio of 0.32%
I currently have basically all of my investments in the S&P 500 (VOO) and am looking to gain ex-US equity exposure. I do not want to sell any of my VOO at this time. Seems like the best option for me would be to invest in ETFs that focus on non S&P 500 stocks. Any advice on which ETFs may be best? VEU? ACWX? Appreciate any advice - thanks!
VXUS, ACWX, VXUS. If you’d like a value tilt, you can use a combination of SYLD, FYLD, and EYLD.
For VXUS - IXUS or ACWX (if you prefer to track MSCI)
You should do it yourself, but I think you’re looking at too many funds. If you want it to be passive then: - ITOT (https://www.ishares.com/us/products/239724/ishares-core-sp-total-us-stock-market-etf) - IUSB (https://www.ishares.com/us/products/264615/ishares-core-total-usd-bond-market-etf) At some percent allocation that matches your risk tolerance. But the time you’re 50 you probably will want the IUSB to be about 25-40% of your portfolio (depending on risk tolerance). If you want some international then add in some ACWX (https://www.ishares.com/us/products/239594/ishares-msci-acwi-ex-us-etf) but keep it at less than 20% of your equities allocation.
Put it plainly...yes...things can turn for the worst, and it turns quickly. If you haven't experienced a turn like that before, you will freeze up. You look at your loses and keep thinking to yourself "I gotta at least make it back to break even". So you end up holding it longer than you should. Now you're exposed to more downside risk on that, or you're simply stuck with a stock that bottomed out and stays at the bottom for a prolong period of time. Now you miss out on the gains if you existed that position and move to something else. If you're trying to buy a company on its way down...there are a lot of risk associated with it. Even in the stock portion it's better to break it up into a few bets for the same theme. It's good to hear you're also backed up by ETFs so your portfolio as a whole is not so concentrated. When looking at diversification, in general it is best to look at it in a WHOLE PORTFOLIO perspective. If you have let's say 45% SPY/VOO - all the same basically US index 35% VEU/ACWX - world ex US index 10% BND - Bonds 10% any stock.......let's say ATVI (since it's one of the worst 2021 performers).... So 10% in one stock is still a lot, but if you lose 50% of that, it's only a 5% hit on your total assets. Alternatively....10% consists of ATVI, PENN, LVS, WYNN.....we going full dumpster diving here. The chance of all of them lose 50% is lower.
I’d see about adding some non_US equity in an ACWI-ex us index fund. ACWX ETF is one. VOO and VTI have a lot of overlap.
If you're a US resident, short-term losses will offset short term gains first. Tax harvesting makes sense depending on your situation. Let's say your standard deduction covers your yearly income, you won't have to pay taxes anyway, so tax harvesting is not needed. If you are currently on the low end of tax rates and expect next year to be higher (whatever the reason is, selling real estate, higher salary, etc.) you may want to not do it, as you'll pay a higher percentage next year. Remember that tax harvesting allows you to realize losses for the current year, but if you expect your position to gain in the future, it'll increase your gains the following year when in reality, your position may just go back to breakeven. Let's use an example. You bought VXUS for $100K. It dropped to $70K. You have $30K unrealized losses. If you realize the loss and buy $70K worth of ACWX, you can deduct $30K from your revenue. The following year, it goes back to $100 but you now have unrealized gains of +$30K that you'll have to pay taxes on when you sell. So the answer to your question depends on your financial situation, current and expected in the future.
How much are you down in percentage and dollar terms? It never hurts to harvest losses, but you might set an amount you want to do it at (down 5%/10% or unrealized loss of $500 or more.) SCHB and ACWX should be fine.
I independently came to a similar conclusion as well - all the testing I've done on Portfolio Visualizer points to an uncomfortable fact that even on a 5+ year horizon, a portfolio optimized to maximize its Sharpe ratio delivers [~3% alpha](https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/optimize-portfolio?s=y&goal=2&benchmark=-1&benchmarkSymbol=SPY&constrained=true&symbol5=TLT&symbol4=VT&lastMonth=12&historicalVolatility=true&symbol1=VTI&endYear=2021&symbol3=BND&symbol2=ACWX&mode=2&comparedAllocation=-1&startYear=1985&timePeriod=4&historicalReturns=true&robustOptimization=false&historicalCorrelations=true&firstMonth=1&groupConstraints=false) yet is -9% vs. SPY. It actually leaves only two ETFs worth investing: - 80% TLT - long dated TSYs - 20% VTI - total US equity This makes no sense, so I optimized the portfolio to focus on information ratio and Kelly Criterion to maximize overall return, and the [portfolio was dead simple](https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/optimize-portfolio?s=y&goal=12&benchmark=-1&benchmarkSymbol=SPY&constrained=true&symbol5=TLT&symbol4=VT&lastMonth=12&historicalVolatility=true&symbol1=VTI&endYear=2021&symbol3=BND&symbol2=ACWX&mode=2&comparedAllocation=-1&startYear=1985&timePeriod=4&historicalReturns=true&robustOptimization=false&historicalCorrelations=true&firstMonth=1&groupConstraints=false) - 100% VTI. No international exposure, no bond exposure, no REIT exposure, etc. Only exposure to tech stocks in particular maximized the Kelly Criterion and beat the SPY. I think this is a testament to how strong US equities have been in particular, and if you're trying to basically maximize Kelly, (maximize return without going bust), just go all in on US equities.
I agree, International diversification is the hole to plug, make sure you use an ex-US, like VXUS or ACWX. you have plenty US exposure and a lot of world funds can still hold US. Also bear in mind that the US market is heavily exposed to tech compared to the rest of the world (even in VTI), so adding large cap international is a good way to smooth that out.