14/08/2026 09:27

Vanguard MSCI International Shares (ex-Australia) ETF (ASX: VGS) $164.21

The VGS ETF, which has attracted significant inflows in recent months, provides broad exposure to a diversified portfolio of large- and mid-cap companies across developed global markets, excluding Australia. Two important points to recognise:

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27/03/2026 09:17

Vanguard MSCI International Shares (ex-Australia) ETF (VGS) $142.65

This ETF provides broad exposure to a diversified portfolio of large and mid-cap companies across developed global markets, excluding Australia. We particularly like this huge ETF’s sector mix—over 20% in semiconductors and internet names versus just ~6% in software, even for a relatively tech-heavy fund. Global equities haven’t retreated as far as they did during the Liberation Day sell-off, but they are now within ~70% of the move. Assuming the current war doesn’t send the global economy into a recession, we are seeing another pullback to buy - our preferred scenario at this stage.

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12/09/2025 09:35

Vanguard MSCI Index International Shares ETF (VGS) $147.59

We like global equities into Christmas as we’ve discussed through 2025, again there are a number of ASX-traded ETFs available but our favourite is the Vanguard VGS which is the largest at $12.7bn and has a low 0.18% cost - note its not hedged to FX moves.

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05/03/2024 09:44

Three ideas we are considering as we enter March

s global equities continue to post new all-time highs, we have to embrace the bullish trend until further notice; from a technical perspective, the MSCI World Index is in a “buy the dip” cycle unless we see a break back below the 3150 level, or just over 6% lower. Many investors, including ourselves, thought equities might struggle to add to their late 2023 gains, but the grind higher has been unrelenting, and as the likes of the Nikkei and Bitcoin have demonstrated, there's plenty of money looking for a home

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19/08/2022 09:22

MSCI World ESG Index

The term ESG stands for Environmental, Social & Governance and is a set of standards of behaviour that socially conscious investors are now demanding from their investments.  There are more investors building ESG into their process, which is a good thing, and companies are now investing more heavily here and making decisions through a more...

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10/05/2022 09:35

MSCI World Equities Index

At MM we are believers in the global economy and by definition stocks, we only have to look at history to give us confidence in equities although of course, they do at times go down as well as up i.e. stocks move short-term on news and liquidity but it’s the underlying company performance that determines where a stock will be changing hands a few years down the track. A couple of very important points that MM wants to reiterate to nervous subscribers:

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04/04/2022 08:56

MSCI Emerging Markets Index

Emerging Markets (EM) have experienced a tumultuous year so far which is easy to comprehend with the geopolitical upheaval the world’s experienced but it’s important to recognise the EM had already been struggling since the $US started rallying in Q1 of 2021. Our current view towards EM is mixed depending on the timeframe:

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18/03/2022 09:21

MSCI World Equities Index

Moving on to our main area of focus, stocks and it’s a scary picture as global equity indices halved in well under 2-years when oil prices surged in 1973. While there were no real alternative energy sources on the table back then, we are always cognisant of history and if MM develops a view that a repeat performance is likely we will quickly be adopting a very defensive strategy for obvious reasons.

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03/03/2022 09:25

MM lightens our oil & gold holdings into panic buying, what to buy?

Firstly and very importantly while MM remains long term believers in the stock market we have no issue holding an elevated cash position for a few days / weeks especially in today’s volatile environment where opportunities are presenting themselves almost daily on the stock level. MM currently expects equities to bounce into Q2 however unlike recent years our preferred scenario is indices...

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10/12/2021 09:30

5 of the best ASX200 stocks of 2021 might surprise you!

Remain open minded has been one of our catchphrases this year and we believe it definitely will apply again through 2022, not many pundits picked the ASX200’s best 10 stocks of 2021:

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