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In 2011, gold shot up to a high of $1,950 U.S. an ounce, and silver reached a peak of $48.48.


Gold prices then fell steadily, dropping to $1,050 an ounce in December 2015 for the first time since early 2010. That month, silver also declined to a five-year low of $13.65 an ounce.


Gold now trades at $1,297 and silver at $18.49....
ISHARES INDIA 50 ETF $29.21 (Nasdaq symbol INDY; buy or sell through brokers; us.ishares.com) is an ETF that tracks the Nifty 50 index—the 50 largest, most liquid Indian securities. The ETF began trading in November 2009.


The fund’s top holdings are: Housing Development Finance, 7.0%; ITC Ltd....
Pennsylvania-based Vanguard Group is one of the world’s largest investment management companies. In all, it administers almost $3 trillion U.S. across 175 mutual funds and ETFs.


Generally speaking, Canadians are unable to buy mutual funds that are registered in the U.S....
Chinese stocks have rebounded around 33% from their February 2016 lows. But they are still well below their mid-2015 highs.


While the economy grew 6.7% in the latest quarter, that was fuelled by goverment spending, record lending by the banks and a red-hot housing market....
IGM FINANCIAL INC. $36 (Toronto symbol IGM; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares out standing: 240.5 million; Market cap: $8.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.9; Dividend yield: 6.3%; TSI Network Rating: Above Average; www.igmfinancial.com) is Canada’s largest independent mutual fund provider....
ISHARES CHINA LARGE-CAP ETF $38.66 (New York symbol FXI; buy or sell through brokers) aims to track the Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE) China 50 Index. That portfolio is made up of the 50 largest, most-liquid Chinese stocks.

The ETF’s top holdings include Tencent Holdings, China Mobile, China Construction Bank, Bank of China, Ping An Insurance, and China Petroleum and Chemical Corp....
MARKET VECTORS VIETNAM ETF $15.09 (New York symbol VNM; buy or sell through brokers) holds Vietnamese companies and foreign firms that get a significant amount of their revenue from the country.

The ETF’s top holdings are Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, 8.9%; Vingroup (conglomerate), 7.7%; Masan Group (a food, resources and banking conglomerate), 6.8%; Hao Phat Group (industrial conglomerate), 6.6%; and Bao Viet Holdings (insurance), 5.8%....
We think conservative investors can hold up to 10% of their portfolios in foreign stocks. One way to do that is to buy carefully chosen exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that have an overseas focus.

The best ETFs continue to offer very low management fees and well-diversified, tax-efficient portfolios of high-quality stocks....
If you want to include the best ETF investments in your portfolio, then it’s important to consider a variety of components. That’s because all ETFs aren’t created equal