These ETFs let you invest beyond Canada

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If you’re looking for an ETF with top holdings and exceptionally low fees, then Pennsylvania-based Vanguard Group offers you strong options. Vanguard is one of the world’s largest investment management companies. In all, it administers over $6.2 trillion U.S. for investors spread across 420 mutual funds and ETFs. Generally speaking, Canadians are blocked from buying mutual funds that are registered in the U.S. unless those funds are also registered with provincial securities commissions. Moreover, some Canadian funds are only available in a limited number of provinces. Investors in this country can, however, buy Vanguard exchange-traded funds listed on stock exchanges. That’s a plus given their generally lower fees. Here are two of those ETFs we see as buys for you right now. VANGUARD GROWTH ETF, $197.41, is a buy. The ETF (New York symbol VUG; buy or sell through brokers) lets investors track the Center for Research in Security Prices U.S. Large Cap Growth Index. That broadly diversified index focuses on big U.S. firms. As a result, this…