Gyroscopic Investing

Poll: what is your equity allocation to world regions?  To make an apples-to-apples comparison use Morningstar Instant X-Ray and then copy and paste the "World Region" section.  If you'd like, also include the P/PE, PE, or PE10 ratio.  I'm guessing many are 100% VTI but I believe some do an international tilt as well?

http://portfolio.morningstar.com/Rtport ... Entry.aspx

Here are my results Price/Prospective Earnings 11.89

The bulk of my investments are in a conventional HB Permanent Portfolio using VTI for the equities. But I do have a small VP consisting solely of VT.

Keep in mind too that US Companies have tremendous exposure to international markets. I have never once traveled to a country and not come across McDonald's, Coca Cola, Nike, Boeing, Caterpillar, GE, IBM, Dell, Cisco, Microsoft, etc.

For simplicity though, I think it would be tough to beat VT as a single stock holding if someone wants low-cost and easy international stock exposure that also holds US companies.

For those who favor a more bogleheadish type portfolio, especially if they are eschewing gold, I would go with VT over VTI or SPY.

They don't cover all stocks so I can't enter my portfolio

Except for a small variable portfolio allocation to Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX), I use Vanguard's Total World Stock Index (VT) for the stock portion of our Permanent Portfolio.

John