Foreign ETF portfolio restructuring

Just updated the portfolio, net worth, passive income and expense figures on my blog. You will notice a big drop in the value of our foreign ETF portfolio. This is due to a small sale event in May 2017 where my wife sold her Vanguard All-World ETF (VWRD on LSE). We decided it was overlapping too much with my Vanguard All-World High Dividend Yield ETF (VHYD on LSE). To make up for this going forward, my wife will be buying the Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF (VDEM on LSE) and Vanguard Developed Asia Pacific ex Japan ETF (VDPX on LSE) instead. The dividend yields of these ETFs are generally above 2% and allows us to slice & dice our investing approach a little. I know it looks like we are reversing our position after having sold the same 2 ETFs in Mar 2017. It’s true. We are ......