Mtn153

iShares Asia Region ETFs Weekly and YTD Returns

While those Pacific Rim ETF's are doing well, I'm really suprised that you have overlooked the ETF's of Latin America as they are out performing the funds you mentioned be it one year or going all the way back to the bottom of 2002 (450%). If you follow the movement of manufacturing (thanks to NAFTA) by American companies overseas, you will note that by far, more are moving their operations to Latin America rather than the Pacific Rim. Johnson and Johnson is a good example. Their are also many reasons to believe that they will do far better in the coming years. They are completely energy independent, they have a growing well educated middle class, their governments are following a very friendly approach to entice more manufacturing relocation to their contries, they are mostly Catholic and have few Muslims and therefore will have little involvement in the coming Christian/Muslim wars. In my opinion, these and many other reasons should encourage American investors to look South rather than West.