ETFs with European Exposure and Minimizing Capital Gain Distributions

Listen to The ETF Store Show every Saturday at 4pm on KCMO Talk Radio 710AM as we cover everything you need to know about Exchange Traded Funds and the world of investing.

On our most recent radio show, we discussed the latest on the debt crisis in Europe and some ETFs with European exposure that may be impacted including VGK (Vanguard MSCI Europe ETF), EWG (iShares MSCI Germany Index ETF), EWQ (ishares MSCI France Index ETF), and EWI (ishares MSCI Italy Index ETF).

We also spent some time focusing on a timely, year-end topic – capital gain distributions.  This is the time of the year where if you own mutual funds, you may be getting some bad news in the mail in the form of taxable capital gain distributions.  With ETFs, in addition to typically being much cheaper and offering more investment options than actively managed mutual funds, they can also be much more tax efficient due to their minimal capital gain distributions.

Finally, we delved into some of your questions, including emerging market ETFs to consider and how easy it is to work with The ETF Store.

Listen to the full show here.

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Nate Geraci

Nate is President of NovaDius Wealth Management, a registered investment advisor providing clients with comprehensive financial planning and portfolio management. Previously, Nate helped launch The ETF Store, an investment advisory firm specializing in Exchange Traded Funds.

He is the creator and host of the weekly podcast ETF Prime, which Bloomberg has called one of the “most helpful plain-English resources for investors who want to demystify exchange-traded funds”.

He is creator and Host of Crypto Prime, which features interviews with top experts from around the world on bitcoin, crypto, NFTs, and the entire web3 ecosystem.

Nate is also Co-Founder of The ETF Institute, the first and only independent organization providing ETF industry professionals and financial advisors with certification, education, and training pertaining to ETFs.

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