Inside The Bedokian’s Portfolio is an intermittent series where I will reveal what we have in our investment portfolio, one company/bond/REIT/ETF at a time. In each post I will briefly give an overview of the counter, why I had selected it and what possibly lies ahead in its future. For this issue, I will talk about the Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF (ticker: VEA). Overview VEA is an ETF from Vanguard, one of the largest and established ETF providers in the world. VEA uses the FTSE Developed All Cap ex US Index as the benchmark, and previously it was tracking the MSCI EAFE Index, in which EAFE stands for “Europe, Australasia and the Far East”. As indicated in the current and previous index names, the ETF does not contain any US listed companies in its holdings. In addition, the ETF contains listed companies from the developed countries in the said r...