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Reasons to Include International Investments in Your Portfolio

Darrow Wealth Management

stocks that started in the early 2000s. Between 2000 – 2009, the cumulative total return for the S&P 500 was negative 9.1% equity may be able to help reduce risk in a portfolio. By way of example, consider this hypothetical 60/40 portfolio of stocks to bonds. Valuations. These bouts can be significant.

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After the recent run-up, a good time to diversify

Nationwide Financial

Clients participating in this year’s tech-stock rally could benefit from a portfolio review and diversification check, as this appreciation may have thrown many allocations off balance. Investors may find opportunities at more reasonable valuations when comparing different asset classes across the market.

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AQR Spots Major Opportunity in Emerging Markets

Validea

In an interview with Bloomberg, Villalon said that the models used by AQR indicate that equities in emerging markets have the cheapest relative valuations since the year 2000, and will beat U.S. AQR takes “a valuations-based perspective,” Villalon says, so while the firm can’t predict “if the U.S. equities for the next 10 years.

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Four Hard Investing Lessons From 2022 With Silver Linings

Validea

Coming into 2022, the 60/40 stock/bond portfolio had been a stalwart strategy for your balanced investor. Even with bear markets like 2000-2002 and 2008-2009, the portfolio had strong returns for a very long period. at the start of the year) things are looking brighter for this simple portfolio. Source: [link].

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Smaller Stocks Are On A Winning Streak

Validea

The Russell 2000 has declined 32% from its November 2021 high through June 2022—worse than the S&P 500’s 24% drop. And the Russell 2000 is now up 14.3% That’s led some strategists to advise investors to overweight their portfolios with small-caps, the article reports.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

If you’re at all interested in focused portfolios, the concept of quality as a sub-sector under value and just how you build a portfolio and a track record, that’s tough to beat. Dick Mayo was a traditional, I’d say portfolio, strong portfolio manager focused on US stocks. In 2000, right.

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Market Correction: What It Is and Why Market Corrections Matter

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

The index’s loss of 6.24% in 2018 was paltry compared to its 38% loss in 2008 and three consecutive double-digit down years of 2000-2002. This helps to illustrate the fact that market corrections are common over most periods of time and should be viewed as the market resetting stock valuations back to a more fundamental level.