Taking your dough all around the world.
Do good companies grow outside the U.S.? Of course they do. See Alibaba and Tencent for details. (They're bigger than Google, in case you live in a red, white, and blue shoebox.)
By investing internationally, outside of domestic-only investments, you (in theory, at least) mitigate risk by adding diversity to your portfolio. The notion is that American Exceptionalism doesn't exclusively apply to our capital markets system, and that other countries around the world are, in fact, populated by humans. Humans are capitalists at heart, living in a financially Darwinian world, and they'll seek out profitable long-term gains in China and Brazil and Russia the same way they do in America.
All good, as long as you...trust the numbers.
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Finance: What is a Diversified Mutual Fu...20 Views
finance a la shmoop what is a diversified mutual fund? all right people
listen up it's lots of investments stocks bonds exposure to risk and reward [Risk and reward punch man in face]
everywhere energy, telecom, insurance, real estate, banking, chemicals, tech, retail not
enough diversity yet well those are just sectors or industries and there's a
whole bunch of them what about geography geographic diversity the US, Russia, China
Europe someday maybe Mars Elon what do you think well maybe exposures to [Elon Musk floating in space]
different currencies or commodities cycles as the diversity you seek hmm
well that's diversity Benetton eat your heart out so the bigger question is why
would you want such diversity? well the idea is that you mitigate risk by being
diverse the don't put all your eggs in one basket thing if one investment goes [Value of investment graph appears]
bust well at least you have plans B C and D to fall back on and if this is
grabbing you check out our videos on efficient markets theory for more on the
subject or maybe diversify your knowledge and watch all of our finance
videos food for thought and you know please click on the ads that we got to [Man holding begging sign]
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