RetireJapan

I am not American, but I was discussing different investment strategies with a friend.

Americans will almost universally be investing with a US brokerage account or through IBKR or Saxo.

Has anyone considered buying a fund like MSCI Kokusai, (NYSE: TOK) and then buying single Japanese blue-chips in a NISA for their Japan allocation?

A simple equity portfolio might look like, 50% VTI, 35% TOK, 5% VWO 10% Japanese large-caps in a NISA.

Just a thought.

It'll probably be a challenge to find other developed-world-ex-japan ETFs. The one you point out, TOK, seems much too thinly traded for my taste.

Piecemeal might be the alternative, so maybe a europe fund (lots of choices), and complement that with a pacific ex-japan fund (more common than world ex-j)?