International Investing: How Much of My Portfolio Should Be Foreign Stocks?
One of the core concepts in investing is diversification: You need to own stocks in an array of industries so that if one part of the economy tanks, it won't take your whole portfolio down with it. But you can also diversify right out of your country's stock market -- there's a whole world of investments to choose from.
So how much of your money should you put into those international stocks? That's the question posed by Rule Breaker Investing listener John Felipe. For him, the question takes on added complexity because he lives in Canada, where the stock market is dominated by giants in a handful of industries. In this segment of the mailbag podcast, host and Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner, Motley Fool Chief Investment Officer Andy Cross, and senior analyst Jim Mueller discuss how best to get that foreign market exposure -- and the degree to which that should be a priority in the first place.
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