Vanguard Pacific ETF (VPL)

The Pacific Rim is a great place to be looking for strong growth and performance. I like the way that Vanguard has created this fund, because it is made up of established Pacific countries not the emerging market ones. This means that we are looking at countries like Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Singapore; rather than the emerging market countries.
You may be thinking that they should have included countries like China and Korea, but Vanguard has already done that with their emerging market ETF (VWO). However, this ETF will add a little bit more diversity to your portfolio by including a number of companies that are not available on updown.
So here is the deal. We are talking about big name companies that we have all heard of: BHP Billiton, Honda and Toyota Motors, Nintendo, Mitsubishi Financial, and Canon Inc, just to name a couple of the major players in this ETF..
It also pays out an annual dividend that is quite attractive. But of course because a lot of updown is trading rather than investing many people may not be interested in this, but if you have any real money sitting in an IRA or another long term account this is a great ETF to own.

As the market starts to come back, I believe we'll see a good return on foriegn markets, especially China.