buyupside.com 21st Century ETF Portfolio

The buyupside.com 21st Century Portfolio includes 13 exchange-traded funds (ETFs) representing six sectors and seven countries with potential for significant multi-year price appreciation.

Exchange-traded funds make sense for investors who want diversification but do not want to select individual stocks. And most ETFs charge much lower annual expenses than comparable managed mutual funds - Vanguard Group ETFs charge very low fees. Most ETFs are very liquid, and you can buy and sell them in a brokerage account just like any individual stock.

Caution: Many of the ETFs in the buyupside.com 21st Century Portfolio are at or near all-time highs, up many fold in the last few years. These high prices present a conundrum for investors - will the price upsides continue or will a significant price corrections or collapses occur?

So before you buy any investment, check its price chart and evaluate the investment according to your risk and reward tolerance.

buyupside.com 21st Century ETF Portfolio
EFT and Web Site	Symbol	Holdings
iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund	IWM	United States small company stocks.
S&P Global Materials Sector Index Fund	MXI	Mining, chemicals, steel and other base materials.
S&P Global Telecommunications Sector Index Fund	IXP	Wireless and land telecommunications companies
PowerShares FTSE RAFI Japan Portfolio	PJO	ETF that includes the largest Japanese stocks.
PowerShares Base Metals	DBB	Owns futures contracts including aluminum, zinc and copper (grade A).
SPDR S&P China ETF	GXC	Selected Chinese stocks that are legally available to foreign investors.
SPDR S&P 500 ETF	SPY	United States small company stocks.
Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF	VWO	Includes major holdings in South Korea, Brazil and Hong Kong. Very low-fee ETF.
Vanguard Energy ETF	VDE	Integrated oil and gas, oil and gas equipment and services, and oil and gas exploration and production.
Vanguard European ETF	VGK	Top holdings include United Kingdom, France and Germany.
Vanguard Health Care ETF	VHT	Biotechnology, health care equipment, managed health care and pharmaceuticals.
Vanguard Information Technology ETF	VGT	Communications equipment, computer hardware, semiconductors and s0ftware.
Vanguard Pacific ETF	VPL	Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and New Zealand.

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Updated December 4, 2007.