Your ETF recommendations?

[ondaflipside]

I'm a little overwhelmed. I've been putting it off for a while.

[kaylie]

I have four that are emerging/frontier markets: DEM (Emerging-general) EZA (South Africa), BRXX (Brazil), FRN (Frontier-general). Economies of developing countries are supposed to grow at a faster rate than developed countries going forward, and I like ETFs to get exposure to that.

I have one that holds preferred stock. The price stays fairly steady and the dividend yield is ~6%. It's PGX.

They're all in my roth, so I intend for them to be long term holds.

[rikki]

I have PGX, too. The price is much higher than when I bought it, but it's paid 6% for years.

[rubytue]

I use ETFs for my international/emerging market exposure, too. My TSP (aka 401k) doesn't have good international exposure and no emerging markets.

But I picked my ETFs from the list of free ETFs (no trading costs) at my brokerage. So I they may not make sense for you. I like using the fee free ones to dollar cost average without a trading fee and bc it narrows down the list I need to research. You are right, it can be overwhelming.

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Dec 31, 2012 8:25:41 GMT -5 rikki said:

I have PGX, too. The price is much higher than when I bought it, but it's paid 6% for years.

Question regarding PGX (and similar preferred share ETFs) -- you pay income tax rather than capital gains tax on gains, right?

Just wondering if they're worth it for us to look into...