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I could not find 2 of your ETF's but here is a 5 year chart of the others vs STXIND. I would scratch out the bottom 4. Once again, I could not use DIVTRX but it will outperform STXIND.
Thanks for the "peeked". You are correct as I was not peeking.

I understand your grievances but corruption is rife everywhere and parliament sessions are a circus even in the UK and Japan is the worst of the lot yet they did well until recently.
Here is a chart of the STXIND vs world markets. This is a 5 year chart and I could not use DIVTRX as it has no 5 year track record but it will outdo the STXIND.

Strange why South Africans want to diversify into developed markets and investors in developed markets want to invest in emerging markets like SA for the extra growth.

I posted a chart somewhere here of the STXIND vs Japan, China, UK and US markets and the STXIND is almost double the growth. To top it, the DIVTRX beats the STXIND so far as well.

Also bear in mind that DIVTRX holds about 15 stocks that have consistently increased their dividends and they dump those that have not. It is a known fact that a company that keeps increasing it's dividend has good fundamentals in place. This alone is good enough for me as I no longer have to do research myself. 

Read Patrick's thread on Core Shares (DIVTRX) just below here. You have peeked my interest in the ETF's you mentioned and I will see if I can get a comparison chart posted here. 

The TFSA has a limit and is off bounds for non residents. I would certainly use it but cannot. I think you have to be resident in SA for at least 91 days a year to be considered tax resident.

I presume you have a SA resident trading account so you pay R49 pm and 0.6% per trade or R80 minimum. If you have a non resident account, you will not pay any VAT but your monthly fee will be higher.
Brokerage fees varies between 0.4 and 0.75% per trade so your 0.6% is not too bad.
So it seems you good to go. Download the trading App and get to know how it works first. If you have money in cash, it should show up. If not, transfer it from your cheque account and in future do all your transfers directly from overseas to the trading account.
Now all you need is to find the ETF that suits you.

Rules is rules and stick to it. BTW @jaDEB, I cannot find your name on the challenge. Nor can I find mine. I last saw mine at 256. Please assist.

A post on an investment forum in the UK last week:
\\I experienced the worst possible reaction to falling equity markets in 1974, when a bank manager told me that his father was thinking of throwing in the towel when market sentiment and prices were on their knees. Despite every logical argument I could muster for him, in the hope of helping him stop his father cashing in after 50%+ falls from the peak, cash in is what he did, and I was so sad for him when the market doubled in the first half of 1975.

I hope current investors on this forum will remember that story if they ever feel the need to bale out through despair, only to watch their unloved assets soar in price within the next year or two.\\


An interesting read posted today.
http://citywire.co.uk/money/fund-managers-eye-emerging-markets-after-crash/a834857?re=35764&ea=394747&utm_source=BulkEmail_Money_Daily_Summary&utm_medium=BulkEmail_Money_Daily_Summary&utm_campaign=BulkEmail_Money_Daily_Summary

I don't know much about bonds but I was always under the impression that they were for preservation purposes only and not for wealth creation.
Perhaps a fixed term bank account will provide better returns??
This to me just sounds too much like "Micky Mouse" stuff. Or can someone enlighten me?