Foreign Investing
Conventional wisdom has long held that a portfolio should be diversified to include a healthy portion of international stocks. Does that conventional wisdom still hold up in light of the changing world economy?
Each January we update our category allocations based on where we think the best opportunities lie in the year ahead. See what fine-tuning we suggest to take advantage of opportunities in the New Year.
Why include an actively-managed foreign fund in our passive indexing "Just-the-Basics" strategy? We explain our original reasoning, and go back inside the numbers to see if our approach still makes sense now that a decade has passed since international index funds first came on the scene.
There's a solid long-term case to be made for investing abroad. We break down the three primary types of funds to consider, and reveal SMI's "secret weapon" in choosing international investments.
How should we adjust our foreign stock holdings in response to currency fluctuations?
