My experience having half of my childhood in China and half in the U.S.

And then going back there and seeing how different my life would have been had I grown up completely in China versus my formative years being here in a more free society.

That's what made me realize that freedom makes a difference and an impact in not only my life, but in markets as well.

Welcome to the Stay Wealthy podcast.

I'm your host Taylor Schulte, and today we are talking about freedom.

My guest is Perth Toll, and Perth is the founder of Life and Liberty Indexes.

She also sponsored an exchange traded fund that was recently launched called the Freedom

100 Emerging Markets ETF. The ticker is FRDM, like Freedom for short, if you want to look it up.

With her help today, we're going to be diving deep into the world of emerging markets. Here's the deal.

In my opinion, emerging market stocks

belong in a long-term diversified investment portfolio. In a traditional 60% stock, 40% bond portfolio,

my firm allocates close to 10% to emerging markets. So a million dollar retirement portfolio might have around

$100,000 in this volatile, often difficult to understand asset class, which is a meaningful

position. But why? Why invest in emerging markets at all? Why invest overseas if the U.S.

stock market has done so well? And what are

emerging markets anyways? We're going to be answering all of these questions and more in today's

interview. For all the links and resources mentioned in this episode, visit you staywealthy.com

forward slash 56.

Thank you. staywealthy.com forward slash 56. I just shared in the introduction that I recorded that my firm allocates close to 10%

to emerging market stocks and a traditional 6040 portfolio, which is, you know, I think

both you and I would agree that that's a meaningful position. But in your own personal investment portfolio, which is, you know, I think both you and I would agree that that's a meaningful

position. But in your own personal investment portfolios, you allocate over 50% to this

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