VEA. Look it up. Europe, Hong Kong, etc have been outperforming the US for over a year now.

Google the ticker and compare to VTI then get back to me. And that’s without even mentioning gold.

My VT shares have risen in bear direct proportion to VTIs relative underperformance. The main difference is the international exposure of VT.

I did, and I see most years it has not beaten VTI… and if you invested 10k in them for the past 10 years VTI is near 2.5x more money.

May be worth it for diversification, but you’d be very lucky if it outperformed the next 10 years.