Why investors shouldn't shy away from international stocks

Tom Bruni, StockTwits Head of Market Research, recently appeared on Stocks In Translation to analyze global markets and explore the current landscape of international investments. He discussed why adding international stocks to your portfolio might be beneficial, stating, “If you believe that the world is gonna continue to grow and develop, then you want to try to get some exposure.”

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This post was written by Neil Mulcahy.

Video Transcript

How do you think about global markets and kind of investing overseas?

Maybe let's take a new investor here in the US.

Is it important to have international investments?

It was 80 years.

Yeah, for the last 10 years or since the financial crisis, international exposure is really hurt portfolio performance.

So we've seen a lot of people leaning away from that and more toward us uh exposure.

But what I would say is, you know, a broad based vehicle like uh you know, a target date retirement fund or even some of the, you know, just basic like, you know, Vanguard's uh International Fund can give some exposure.

Um Personally, I have 50% of my portfolio in the US in US stocks.

And then I have uh the other 50 split between emerging markets and uh developed markets, excluding the US.

So I personally think long term uh it it's part of a diversified portfolio and yeah, for the last 15 years, it certainly hasn't paid off.

But um if you believe that the world is going to continue to grow and develop, then uh you want to try to get some exposure