The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition that it is easy to invest worldwide because if a country has a stock market, an exchange-traded fund probably tracks it. Globe columnist Norman Rothery writes that we start with Canadian stock ETFs that track the broad market. For instance, the iShares Core S&P/TSX Composite ETF (XIC) follows the S&P/TSX Composite Index, while the TD Canadian Equity Index ETF (TTP) tracks the similar Solactive Canada Broad Market Index. Both hold hundreds of Canadian stocks. The broad-market Canadian stock ETFs generated annual returns of roughly 15.7 per cent over the past five years with recent volatilities near 12.8 per cent. But they suffered from declines of about 37 per cent in the 2020 crash. Gulp! We also highlight two ETFs that focus on large Canadian stocks. The iShares S&P/TSX 60 ETF (XIU) is better suited to active traders owing to its high volume while the Vanguard FTSE Canada ETF (VCE) is a better bet for almost everyone else thanks to its much lower annual fee. In the United States, many indexes cover the S&P 500 or similarly large stocks. In Canada, the iShares Core S&P US Total Market ETF (XUU) tracks roughly 2,500 of the largest stocks in the U.S.