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MSCI EAFE (CAD-Hedged) ETF. International. Cap weighted. Broadly diversified. It tracks the MSCI EAFE index, so it is a whole wide variety of 1st world economy stocks.

2011-11-09

BUY

15.070

Europe, Australasia and Far East (CAD-Hedged) ETF. One of his core ETF recommendations for clients who buy ETFs..

2011-10-05

TOP PICK

17.850

Has been down about 35-40% since its high. This is what you buy if you want something for the long term. Global exposure. Economies are terrible but companies are making money.

2011-06-10

TOP PICK

18.590

MSCI EAFE (CAD-Hedged) ETF. Likes that it is dealing in areas that people aren't thinking about.

2011-05-06

PAST TOP PICK

18.170

(Top Pick Feb 19/10, Up 5.54%) International stocks outside of North America. Badly beaten up in the last little while. Europe has felt some pain as well as Japan. Some day Europe will take off.

2011-03-23

PAST TOP PICK

19.150

(A Top Pick Feb 19/10. Up 11.12%.) Europe, Australasian and far east ETF. Basically the developed world outside of North America. Have had a tougher time. Great core holding. Hedged to the Cdn$.

2011-02-10

DON'T BUY

18.560

Dennis Mitchell, CFA

Bullish factor is migration into cities from rural Chinese. Would invest in N.A. where you have drivers for growth.

2011-01-07

PAST TOP PICK

18.550

(A Top Pick Feb 19/10. Up 8.27%.) EAFE (Europe, Austalasia and far East) (CAD-Hedged) ETF. When you combine the 3 Picks, it gives you 3 of your 4 main equity components to give a cheap and broad diversification.

2010-12-29

PAST TOP PICK

17.730

(Top Pick Jan 4/10, Down 2%) Far east. You might want to move 10% to XIC.

2010-11-23

BUY

17.940

Good for Asian exposure.

2010-10-22

HOLD

17.770

It’s a long-term strategic hold so he isn’t buying or selling it. It’s totally fine as a core holding.

2010-10-19

SELL

17.680

Terry Shaunessy

Based on EFA Index (Europe, Australasian, far east). Sold his holdings about 2 weeks ago. A big part of this is European banks. Doesn't think the banks are in trouble but expect they will have to issue a lot of equity. If you own, you could Sell and buy options against it but this could be flattish for a little while.

2010-05-11

TOP PICK

17.590

Tracks international index, so global exposure. Currency hedged.

2010-02-19

TOP PICK

18.320

MSCI EAFE $Cdn ETF. International ETF hedged back into Cdn. Mostly Western Europe with a bit of Australia. For the most part it is 1st world nations in Western Europe.

2010-01-04

BUY

18.220

Europe, Australia and the far east ETF. You could back this up with an Emerging market ETF's (XEM-T).

2009-10-15

BUY

15.490

Som Seif

International hedge to eliminate the high risk of the US$.

2008-12-12

WAIT

29.120

Don Vialoux

Based on the EFA Index (Europe, Australasian and far east). Historically, the EFA Index does very well from the end of September to the end of April. Technically, the next target is around $33 and he is looking at short-term indicators as to when to get out. Wait for September before buying.

2007-04-25

Comment

27.230

Richard Croft

This is The International Index fund. The only thing it owns is a product called EFA. This is the EFAE Index (EFA-N) in the US. (Making it an index inside another index?) Basically they are playing a spread by shorting or going long the Cdn$ versus the US$.

2007-03-15

BUY

28.550

This gives you 1200 of the largest companies in the world. Because it is in Canadian dollars, there is no currency risk.

2007-02-15

BUY

26.800

Perfect for anyone that doesn’t want to take on the global risk or do all the work needed to achieve the same diversification. You’re getting 1200 of the largest companies in the world.

2006-12-05

BUY

26.840

1200 of the largest companies in the world, so you get exposure across pretty well every country.

2006-11-09

BUY

26.620