International

Are you unknowingly limiting your investment potential? Discover the dangers of home bias and how a globally diversified portfolio can help you achieve your financial goals.

It has been a tough year to be an investor, with nearly every asset class around the world taking its lumps. With a globally diversified, balanced stock and bond portfolio […]

Today, people are enamored of U.S. stocks and the attractive returns they’ve delivered. International stocks? Not so much. Giving up on international stocks now in favor of more U.S. stocks […]

Investors have many reasons to despise international stocks today. Chiefly among them is performance: they’ve underperformed large cap U.S. stocks by 7% per year since 2008. Despite […]

No one knows exactly how “Brexit” will ultimately impact the U.K., Europe and rest of the world. During times like this, it is important to maintain perspective.

With foreign shares underperforming U.S. stocks again last year, some investors may question the value of international diversification. They shouldn’t.

DFA’s Emerging Markets Small Cap Fund (DEMSX) recently topped Bloomberg’s ‘Riskless Return Ranking’. We agree it’s a great fund, but for many reasons not captured in Bloomberg’s ranking.

Concerns over slowing economic growth abroad have some investors re-considering their allocation to emerging market stocks. These warnings strike us as mildly amusing, as it was just a few […]

Non-U.S. stocks currently account for more than half the global market.  Despite this fact, investors still commit relatively small portions of their portfolios to investments abroad.  In this essay we […]

Q: How do exchange rates impact international stock returns?

High quality international government bonds have historically provided similar levels of returns to those of U.S. Treasury bonds. Importantly, their safety shines when investors need it most—during times of […]