{"id":2095663,"date":"2018-12-28T13:21:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T07:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/?p=2095663"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:21:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T07:51:20","slug":"country-etf-returns-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2018\/12\/28\/country-etf-returns-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Country ETF Returns 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are over 1300 equity ETFs listed in the US. Of these, a fair number are country specific market-cap ETFs. With 2018 almost over, here&#8217;s how various <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/stockviz\/blog\/raw\/master\/country%20etfs\/return%20charts\/ETF.list.png\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">country ETFs<\/a> performed:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/stockviz\/blog\/raw\/master\/country%20etfs\/return%20charts\/ETF.absolute.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/github.com\/stockviz\/blog\/raw\/master\/country%20etfs\/return%20charts\/ETF.absolute.png\" width=\"2700\" height=\"3600\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, there is also an &#8220;all country&#8221; ETF &#8211; VT &#8211; the Vanguard Total World Stock ETF. Here&#8217;s the chart of excess returns over VT:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/stockviz\/blog\/raw\/master\/country%20etfs\/return%20charts\/ETF.vt.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/github.com\/stockviz\/blog\/raw\/master\/country%20etfs\/return%20charts\/ETF.vt.png\" width=\"2700\" height=\"3600\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very few markets managed to stay positive this year. Interesting times indeed!<\/p>\n<p>Code and charts are on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/stockviz\/blog\/tree\/master\/country%20etfs\/return%20charts\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">github<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are over 1300 equity ETFs listed in the US. Of these, a fair number are country specific market-cap ETFs. With 2018 almost over, here&#8217;s how various country ETFs performed: Thankfully, there is also an &#8220;all country&#8221; ETF &#8211; VT &#8211; the Vanguard Total World Stock ETF. Here&#8217;s the chart of excess returns over VT: &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2078773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3471],"tags":[960],"class_list":["post-2095663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investing-insight","tag-returns","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2078773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}