Quote Originally Posted by Joshuatree View Post
Muffin; im curious about your timing here, are you really feeling bullish about global markets?
If you're investing for the long term - ie 10 years +, then timing isn't so much of an issue. In fact before Trump was voted in, countless of so called experts claimed there will be a stock market crash. At that time the DOW was around 17K. Now we're at 25K. How do you explain this gain in the past 2+ years if you listened to the bears and sat on the side lines?

If I was Muffin and was playing with small $ (well under the $50K threshold of FIF), I would look none other than US equities. There's a lot at stake with the upcoming capital gains tax in NZ which could trigger capital outflows and a weaker NZD to the USD exchange rate. The NZ equity market (in ETF form or not) are not mutually exclusive to the global investing market.