Personal Finance International

Jim Peterson at Schwab Investment Research advices that to invest in foreign funds you should: invest a one quarter of the money you have allocated for stocks adjusting upward or downward depending on how you feel about the world economy Two-thirds should be in developed economies such as Japan and Europe The remainder should be [...]

This article concurs with the less than optimistic sentiments about putting all your money in the U.S. financial markets. It says: Clearly, Americans are getting the message. On Thursday, the Investment Company Institute, the mutual fund industry’s trade group, said investors had poured more than $61 billion into foreign-stock funds in the first three months [...]