You are here: Personal Finance > Investing > An Update On My Battered Market Sector ETF Strategy

An Update On My Battered Market Sector ETF Strategy

by Erik Folgate  
Filed under Investing

Leave a Comment

A few weeks ago, I wrote this article about my experiment with some battered market sector exchange traded funds in my rollover IRA.

Current Performance

So far, it has been right on pace with the S&P 500. It dropped about 7% in February, then it rose about 20% in March. They are doing well, but in this market anything can happen. I am confident that financials, real estate, and energy sectors will rebound at some point, and when they do, this retirement account will flourish. We are also going to open an IRA with Vanguard. We’ll pump more money into this account and invest in balanced growth mutual funds, bonds, and dividend appreciation funds.

What I Am Looking At Buying In The Future

I want to get into VWO, which is Vanguard’s emerging markets ETF. Also, I want to balance out the fund a little bit, so I am looking at BND and AGG. BND is Vanguard’s bond ETF and AGG tracks the Barclay’s bond index.

I will continue to update everyone once a month to let you know if I was a genius or an idiot to bet on financials and real estate right now.

Tags:

Related Articles

Speak Your Mind

Tell us what you're thinking...
and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar!

MoneyCrashers content is for informational purposes only and should not be interpreted as professional financial advice. Should you need such professional advice, we can try to assist you in finding that advice.References to products, offers, and rates from third party sites often change constantly. While we do our best to keep these updated, numbers stated on our site may differ from actual numbers from time to time. We make a concerted effort to provide you with honest, genuine, and accurate analysis and reviews of products.We may have financial relationships with some of the companies mentioned in this website. Among other things, we may receive free products, services, and/or monetary compensation in connection with our efforts to write accurate and genuine reviews and writeups.