ETF Living off ETFs

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  1. Terry_w

    Terry_w Lawyer, Tax Adviser and Mortgage broker in Sydney Business Member

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    Sounds like my life now. Except my internet has been down for 5 days
     
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  3. Omnidragon

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    $2-3m tied up for a $100k seems like a very capital intensive investment for such little gains.
     
  4. DoggaPP

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    Big discussion at our house this week. 1/2 of the family are dividend investors (loosely PT followers - sort of) and the other half are total return investors (yes, semantics, I know!).

    The discussion amongst the dividend investors was incorporating some ETFs in amongst their LIC's. the likes of VHY, RARI, SYI and even GEAR were being discussed in depth re pro & con's etc - I was just listening quietly to the side. One ETF in particular that was being discussed for global dividend diversification was ZYUS which I had never heard of before.

    Thoughts on ZYUS?
     
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  5. Trainee

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    US stocks tend to have very low dividends. So a ETF focused on getting dividends out of the US market would be pretty skewed towards certain industries. The question is whether that's what you are after.
     
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    Within that Information Technology allocation, for example, it's not going to have Apple, Google or Facebook (which have low or zero yields). The question is whether you would do better long term to buy growth funds and just harvest.
     
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    Anyone got thoughts on ZYUS
     
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  9. twisted strategies

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    i looked at ZYUS ( and Australian-focused stablemate ) when ANZ started a partnership with the provider and bought into ANZ instead thinking it might provide a growth vector for the bank ( where the big 4 have limited sensible paths of growth )

    ANZ has walked away that partnership and i exited ANZ .. just another big 4 bank now so bought more MVB .. no current reason to prefer one major bank over the other .

    however back to ZYUS movement at management structure worried me and i don't see the path of sensible growth in the US ( lots of bubble stocks in the US ) i much prefer a focus on Asia ( the continent ) and India although i do hold ASIA the ETF

    ( however if the US market were to drop say 50% the calculations would change and US exposure MIGHT look attractive to me then )

    not much of a guide i am sorry to day , nut might provoke some more informed responses

    cheers
     
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