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Global Diversification: Why You Should Invest in Foreign and Emerging Markets

Thu, 30 Aug 2018 14:00:55 +0000

Investing in global markets actually makes investing less risky and uncertain because no one can accurately predict which asset classes will perform the best at any given time. In this post, we’ll talk about getting over the “home bias” hump so you can take advantage of foreign and emerging markets.

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How Much Should We Invest in Emerging Markets?

Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:30:49 +0000

One of the most enduring and best-documented behavioral biases in investing is called “The Home Country Bias.” Despite the availability of well-regarded and highly profitable corporations located throughout the world, investors tend to limit their investments to those companies domiciled in their own country. At one time, a survey of institutional investors in France found […]

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Indexing and the Curious Case of Alibaba ($BABA)

Tue, 21 Oct 2014 15:38:26 +0000

It has now been 40 years since I published the first edition of A Random Walk Down Wall Street. The book, about to come out in its 11th edition, had a very simple message: Investors would be better off buying a broad-based index fund that simply held all the stocks in the market. As a […]

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