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picks* Long term as in 5 years what stocks would you buy

EEM - Emerging Markets ETF
EFA- Int'l ETF (Europe, Far East, Austarlia)
FXI (China ETF)

Very nice picks!

I was going to say VWO, it's the Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF, it's more diverse than EEM and has lower management costs.

Having said that the emerging markets have had a huge run, and there's bound to be a better entry point later this year. I'm about 60% in of the money I want to allocate there.

Find some blue chip stuff. Let it ride.

One of the ones that I have had for some time now, but may sell soon, is AAPL. I got them at 15 a share, and they are at the 94 range now. I want them to break 100 before I sell.

Good catch. VWO was not always a mirror of EEM as they originally didn't have a few important countries (I think it was Korea...) that EEM do and it is more thinly traded. However, if I would buy more Emerging Markets, I agree with VWO .

To that end, yesterday I bought the Vanguard Europe ETF - VGK - instead of the iShares one as it's MER is 0.18.

Cisco ...

yeah VWO added Russia which was something that EEM has had. I've got a bunch of VGK as well, plus smaller amounts of lots of the iShares individual countries, I love the country based ETFs :)

Yeah, VGK made sense against IEV just on the lower MER considering the top 20 stocks in each and proportions of were almost the same and it holds a couple hundred companies more in the portfolio.

I am always checking myself if I am becoming too much like a kid in the candy store with all the single country ETFs...and if I am overly diversified without the upside and thus paying a much higher MER and extra transaction costs and I end up mostly just mirroring a simple EFA and EEM strategy in the first place. I like to pair my asset clases/regions/countries....with an actively managed mutual fund or two or three so I am juggling dozens of funds and ETF's and so am out of control with buying them and looking at some of the new Wisdom Tree ones now...

yeah true, I think i've overdone it a little. One thing that i'm missing is small/mid-cap foreign stocks, the ETFs (as a function of their indexing) generally seem to all mega/large cap stocks.

Well, you just gotta check out all the Canadian penny mining stocks on the TSX Venture exchange then. It's the leading exchange in the world for small cap mining stocks and it's like the Wild West of investing. Check out www.stockhouse.ca for lots of info on these micro micro penny stocks if you want to be a gambler.

Tech:
1. AT&T here in the states - They are almost back to full Ma Bell again :)
2. Cisc0 - They power the net + their Video offerings are just off the scale.

Non-Tech:
Emerging overseas companies.

no I like to sleep at night :).. I think a nice foreign mid/small cap fund might be good, but yet to find one that they'll let me buy (being outside N.A a lot of funds won't accept money from foreigners :))

What do you guys think of Gazprom?
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=OGZPF.PK

Trlg

5678

what about microsoft its been moving nice past 6 months

Sears is your safest bet...

Russia has had a huge couple of years on the back of energy stocks like Gazprom, looks like there's a bit of a cool off in the energy sector so it might be a good time to think of picking up something in that sector.

However there's a lot of risk in something like Gazprom, I'd rather play Russia through some like the Vanguard Emerging Market Holder (VWO) of which Gazprom is part, 5% of holdings I believe.

TRLG is looking pretty good at the moment but it's not a 'gold mine' by any stretch of the imagination. It could rise 5-6 within over the next four months. Nov-Dec. would have been the best time to buy but right now still isn't particularly bad.

thanks for the input, yupp high risk but could be pure gold too.

Other interesting stocks:
Lundin Mining Corp
West Siberian Resources
Tanganyika Oil Company

ctxs msft csco ebay spiders. I mainly do options trading and quick day trades but those *are* some of the ones I own for the longterm.