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🗓️ 22 September 2015

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Fool Funds Chief Investment Officer Bill Mann challenges some of the common misconceptions held by Americans about investing overseas. He also shares the lessons he learned as a Siberian underwear purveyor.

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0:00.0	Bonjour, y'all. This is Alison Southwick, joined as always by Robert Brokamp, personal finance
0:08.6	expert here at The Motley Fool. He's also the advisor for Motley Fool's Rule Your Retirement
0:13.1	newsletter.
0:14.1	It's true.
0:15.1	It's all true. On this week's episode of Motley Fool Answers, we're joined by Bill Mann.
0:18.9	He's the chief investment officer for full funds and full wealth. He's going to help us navigate the waters of international
0:24.6	investing and combat some common misconceptions held by U.S. investors. We're also going
0:29.7	to take a look at some startup investments made by celebs and see how they panned out.
0:34.9	All that and more on this week's episode of Motley Fool Answers.
0:41.2	So hi, Bill.
0:42.3	Thanks for joining us today.
0:43.8	How are you?
0:44.7	I'm great.
0:46.5	Bro, how are you?
0:47.6	I'm great, too.
0:48.7	You guys have had lots of coffee, haven't you?
0:51.4	No, we just love having, we just love it when special guests come into our studio
0:55.6	and talk to us. Bill Mann has been at the Fool for 16 years and I know this because he and I
0:59.9	started on the very same day, way back in 1999. Yeah, yeah. The company hasn't been the same since.
1:06.2	You went through Fool orientation together? They didn't really have that back then. It was like
1:09.8	you went out to lunch and that was it.
1:11.6	They're like, go get to work.
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