Re: My Investing Plan.... Its interesting as hell....
First determine your asset allocation plan. Do you want to put 30% in foreign equities and 70% in the US markets? Or some other mix? You could also consider adding in other asset classes such as fixed income investments, real estate investment trusts, or a commodities index. Spend some time looking up each asset class and deciding what % of your portfolio to allocate to each class.
Then you'll need to pick the index, mutual fund, or stocks to fill in each asset class in your allocation plan. You would want to weight the international ETFs you listed so they all add up to your target for foreign equities. One caution is to watch out for expense ratios on some of the international ETFs. They can be right up there with actively managed mutual funds. The South Korean ETF index EWY carries an expense ratio of 0.94% which is very high for a passively managed index fund.
Anyway, you should get the idea. I use Sharebuilder for my ETF investing and have been pleased with them so far.
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