mikecupertino

The Master ETF

What I would like to see is a few ETF's that would let me "buy the market". Such a set of ETF's might include:

o Total US equities (including REIT's, energy, mining, minerals) holding 5-10K different securities
o Total world ex US equities (incl same asset classes as above) holding 10-20K different securities covering all countries with tradeable equities
o Total US fixed income
o Total world ex US fixed income
o Alternative assets (e. g. timber, commodities, private equity)

The only choice one would need to make in constructing a portfolio would be how to weight each of the above asset classes.

I realize there are already ETF's out there that come close, but they don't provide total coverage. For example, VTI doesn't include REIT's and other US asset classes.

If there were such ETF's or funds out there, I'd buy them.

Mikecupertino