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Why Are All of The Suggestions Here for VXUS and not SPGM?
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Buy the global market, if you deviate from that you better know what you’re doing. Your core should be VT/SPGM/DFAW or something with a similarly global approach.
Even bulls are concerned with AI concentration, but it is what it is. Could expand to the large cap Russell 1000 or even iShares ITOT (the top 2,200 or so US stocks including the S&P 500) or Vanguard’s VTI the top 4,500-ish include the S&P 500). This as not only will IPOs get incorporated but a number of big European stocks are looking at domiciling in the U.S. (pharma and perhaps energy). Could also go global with Vanguard’s VT with several thousand global stocks for 0.06% ER .. or State Street’s more concentrated/often better returning SPGM with a few thousand bigger global stocks at 0.09% ER. The American tech giants still pack a punch though.
Vanguard’s VEA is actually “international” which is defined as “non-US”, while IShares ACWI is truly global large-mid cap (at 0.32% ER). Vanguard has their all-cap global etf VT at 0.06%, while State Street has a less popular all-cap global SPGM at 0.09% that’s more concentrated than VT but usually has better returns (price and dividend). I’d love ACWI at a VT expense ratio, but one reason it’s more expensive reportedly is it tracks its index better = attracts traders. Now iShares URTH is global developed, so it will invest in an index with the US, Europe, Japan and other long term capitalists countries, but leave off China, India, and smaller recent capitalistic coin. It does have some stocks that support the emerging mkts but are domiciled in the U.S. ~ less than 1% last I checked. Vanguard’s VEA is all caps developed ex-US with a cheap er but their VEU is all world ex-US large-middle cap with still some small-cap stocks. Another possibility if wanting to leave off China, India, etc.. but keeping South Korea is Schwab’s SCHF at just a tad more er for a large to mid-cap etf. There’s VXUS or IXUS with more small caps, but personally having only 100 mostly U.S. stocks in QQQ vs 3,400 to 4,400 in IXUS or VXUS kind of seems unbalanced to me (but YMMV). Also Fidelity offers an all-cap version of QQQ with the symbol ONEC.
SCHF looks like a international ex-US developed fund, and doesn't include ex-US emerging markets holdings (Taiwan, China, etc) Two low cost funds would be VTI or ITOT, (total US, SCHB is pretty close) and VXUS or IXUS (total international, including developed, emerging, and frontier markets). Or a single low cost fund with both US and ex-US would be VT or SPGM.
> ACWI Probably the returns large cap has given, while it takes a lot for a small cap in VT (with over 9000 stocks) to register its gains. SPGM has outperformed VT as well in the past 10 years by almost 1%, with only a modest increase in ER, with less overall stocks (SPGM is a little more “concentrated” to the developed large caps). Was looking at it last night and ACWI may track a little better which is good for trading,
Was looking at the US products (SPDR SPGM and iShares ACWI) and found a bit of better performance difference .. vs. Vanguard’s VT (which has many more “small to micro caps” than the other 2),.. though SPDR at a slightly higher ER and the iShares at a much higher ER. Probably a large cap premium plus DFA’s finding a lot of EM small cap just sit there. SPDR can use sampling here in the US, though not sure if that’s significant returns-wise.
Going 50/50 into exactly two *single* investments is an incredibly plan. You should *strongly consider* buying at least one broad market fund. Something with at least hundreds of stocks in it, if not thousands, will provide you with a ‘core’ position. It doesn’t have to be 80% or even 50%. I personally wouldn’t consider going lower than 50% but maybe 33% will work. If it’s only one it should be worldly. Think: SPGM, VT, ACWI, AVGE, URTH, etc. even IOO would be better than only two equities.
VT is the one with the most coverage. Probably the only real total world ETF as others like SPGM will cut out certain markets
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This is not financial advice, but if you buy SPY/VOO and a total market fund like SPTM/VTI and make it 60% of your portfolio, the other 40% into small cap and international like SPSM and SPGM then you will never have to worry about ending up on the front page of this sub and get to enjoy a rough 7-10 percent gain every year without timing the market. 
if your seriously trying to not put 10k into 0DTE then I think half into SPY/VOO and the other half into any total market fund like SPTM/SPGM/VT/VTI isn't a bad idea for some diversification. that will all but guarantee some good returns over a decade. not financial advice ofc, but we know you are gonna yolo it into FD's anyway.
So I’ve looked at the total returns of the four stocks over the last 5 years and DGT has had a total return of 48.7% while the other three have been 40.76-42.08, while having expense ratios of .06-.12 though. And even going back to each fund’s inception date SPGM and VT have had significantly higher returns (159% and 164% to DGT’s 94.75%) despite being relatively newer. While NZAC being the newest is sitting at 85.26%, they’ve also had a lot of dividend growth as well
You bought SPGM instead of VXUS for your international choice because it has US stocks? That doesn't make sense. If you don't want non-US stocks, why do you even have an international allocation? Sounds like you should reduce your international allocation to a level that you're comfortable with. The dividend part of your rationale doesn't make sense either, as VXUS pays over 4%. With SPGM your getting less dividends, less international concentration, and you're paying a higher expense ratio.
SPGM is mostly US. VXUS is the one you want if you are in for international exposure.
I usually compare IXUS with VXUS. I currently hold IXUS for my international exposure. SPGM should be compared to VT.
VXUS does pay a dividend- it's around 3.3% at the moment, vs 2% for SPGM. Regarding performance, past performance is not always indicative of future results. I'' have to take a closer look at SPGM, thanks.
TMHC, ATSG, IDLV, OLITU, RYF, BSJR, NGD, BAC, SPGM, QLS Why? Because it are 10 absolutely random stocks (picked by random stock picker). If we compare this in 10 years, I'd like to know how this random uninformed decision compares to all this arguments here.
Hey everyone, I’m a new investor and I could use some advice/input. I just started investing on Monday of this week but I’m learning more everyday and I want to make sure that I didn’t play myself. I have $150 in both VOO and SPGM, now that I’ve researched more and know what to look for I’m slightly concerned. My concern is that both of these ETFs have holdings in the same companies. Is this a good idea? I understand diversification but I don’t feel like this is true diversification since the companies both etfs have holdings in are the same but the percentages differ. Any input/advice is appreciated, thank you!
Hey everyone, I’m a new investor and I could use some advice/input. I just started investing on Monday of this week but I’m learning more everyday and I want to make sure that I didn’t play myself. I have $150 in both VOO and SPGM, now that I’ve researched more and know what to look for I’m slightly concerned. My concern is that both of these ETFs have holdings in the same companies. Is this a good idea? I understand diversification but I don’t feel like this is true diversification since the companies both etfs have holdings in are the same but the percentages differ. Any input/advice is appreciated, thank you!
Dunno if this went thru last time because I had a company with a small market cap. I took it out now. Just turned 31 a couple weeks ago. Fell for a lot of the hype and lost a little, but now trying to recoup and invest smart. Any tips help. Thank you. VOO-57.34% BB-12.48% AGG-7.69% AAPL-5.85% TSNPD(HMBL soon)-4.79% SPGM-4.46% NOK-2.96% PRNT-1.93% There's more I wanna get into that I'm watching, but I'm till the end of the week.