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	Podcast:		Knowledge at Wharton
	Episode:		Missing the Big Gains: Foreign-Stock Funds and the Benefits of International Diversification
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:08:00
	Publish Date:		2008-02-06 15:51:11
	Description:		In 2007 mutual funds specializing in non-U.S. stocks returned a fat 16% while funds with diversified holdings in U.S. equities returned just over 6%. In fact the foreign-stock funds have beaten domestic-stock funds over periods of two three five 10 and 15 years. Moreover owning foreign stocks helps a U.S. investor diversify risk by reducing a portfolio’s volatility. Why then does the typical U.S. investor do little more than dabble in foreign stocks? Wharton finance professor Karen Lewis studies this issue in a paper titled ”Is the International Diversification Potential Diminishing for Foreign Equity inside the U.S.?” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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