Help
Course Catalog > Portfolios > 500

Portfolios 508: What's the Right Foreign Allocation?

Introduction to What Is the Right Foreign Allocation? The Global Portfolio: A Starting Point Foreign Allocations: Ask the Experts Summary of What Is the Right Foreign Allocation?
Image for Introduction to What Is the Right Foreign Allocation?

Introduction to What Is the Right Foreign Allocation?

(1 of 4)

As the world gets smaller, investment opportunities in other countries become attractive. Here is a perspective on foreign allocation.

What you will learn

  • The Global Portfolio: A Starting Point
  • Foreign Allocations: Ask the Experts

What do you know?

Take the quiz

Introduction to What Is the Right Foreign Allocation?

It’s a trend we’ve seen again and again: Investors’ enthusiasm for an asset class seems to ebb and flow with the performance of that market segment.

Foreign stocks are no exception. For example, though there are sound fundamental reasons for investing in emerging markets, it’s probably not a coincidence that investors send scads of new money to diversified emerging-markets stock funds when they are outperforming.