I'm a passive index investor, currently re-balancing the stock side of my portfolio to be approximately 70/30 VTSMX/VGTSX or similar. Because I have been buying more VGTSX every month I pay attention to it from time to time (I'm always hoping for the value to tank at the end of the month before my shares are purchased!). Based on my short term anecdotal knowledge, now seems like a pretty good time to be buying it. Not only has it fallen quite a bit in the last month, but it hasn't had the same magnitude of boom that the domestic markets have had over the last few years.
I know there are many factors keeping the European and other emerging economies growing slower at the moment (Russia sanctions, for one), but it seems to me like a good place to be putting money.
No real question here, just sharing my thoughts and hoping to hear what others think. Of course this isn't actually going to change any of my investment decisions, but I do like to analyse. So lets hear it!
