Posts Tagged ‘international’

This is the 7th issue of the Ask The Expert column by Larry Swedroe. You can see Larry’s full biography and important disclaimer below. If you are interested in having your question answered by Larry, please send me an email via the contact page.
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This is the 5th issue of the Ask The Expert column by Larry Swedroe. You can see Larry’s full biography and important disclaimer below. If you are interested in having your question answered by Larry, please send me an email via the contact page.
Now, let’s get to the questions and answers (please note that the [...]

A while ago, I asked the question: how much should we invest internationally? Ever since, I came to believe that I am over-weighted in U.S. equities at 72% invested. I believe that my international equities exposure should be closer to 50%, because both the U.S. Gross Domestic Product and market capitalization represents less than 50% [...]

With enormous markets emerging across the world and the dollar continuing its decline, the suggestion that investors should increase their international exposure in order to have a balanced portfolio is worth looking at more closely. After all, investing in international equities helps diversify a portfolio by broadening currency risk and exposing the portfolio to new [...]

First, I want to declare that I know little about world economy, but I am intrigued by it. I am writing this in hope that you (my readers) can pitch in with your thoughts on this. So let’s get started… Last week, I asked my readers What’s Wrong with this 401k [...]

I just got hammered by a mutual fund double whammy. Since I bought my SSgA Tuckerman Active REIT (SSREX), it lost nearly 6%, then the fund distributed $2.9418 per share last Friday. The end result? The fund is now down almost 20% and I will have to pay capital gains tax on [...]