Posts made in October, 2018

2018 Q3: Why invest in foreign equities?

Posted by on Oct 30, 2018 in MFA Quarterly Commentaries

With the US stock market up over 10% through the third quarter this year, you may have asked yourself why your portfolio wasn’t up more. The answer lies in global diversification. You hold many types of investments in your portfolio and most of the other asset classes in the portfolio are flat or down for the year. That’s a normal part of diversification. It’s rare to have all parts of the portfolio up or down at the same time. It’s normal to have some areas performing well while others aren’t. Let’s look at the performance of global stock markets year-to-date through 9/30/2018 as an...

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