International Stocks: Do I Really Need to Own Them?
Stay Wealthy Retirement Podcast
Taylor Schulte, CFP®
4.7 • 678 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, we review the major reasons you should consider including international stocks in your investment portfolio. (Hint: it's not for a higher rate of return.)
In addition, we discuss:
- How to invest in international stocks
- What asset classes belong in a portfolio and what asset classes should be removed
- The proper percentage to allocate to each asset class
- How to implement this portfolio on your own
- A look at our portfolios and how we construct them
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DISCLAIMER: This podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions. This podcast is not engaged in rendering legal, financial, or other professional services.
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| 0:00.0 | compared to U.S. stocks, international stocks look undervalued, quote, unquote. What that means to us is |
| 0:06.9 | we have to expect a higher rate of return over a long period of time from international stocks than |
| 0:14.0 | U.S. stocks. Welcome to Stay Wealthy San Diego, a show for successful professionals doing all the right things with their money and are ready to take their financial plan to the next level. |
| 0:26.8 | I'm certified financial planner Taylor Schulte, and I'm here to teach you advanced financial planning strategies in plain English. |
| 0:35.4 | This podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions. |
| 0:42.1 | This podcast is not engaged in rendering legal, financial, or other professional services. |
| 0:50.1 | Welcome to the Stay Wealthy San Diego podcast. |
| 0:53.2 | Hello podcast listeners. |
| 0:55.8 | Today we're going to be talking about investing in international stocks. |
| 0:59.5 | And I know we've touched on it in some prior episodes, but today we're going to really take a deeper dive into the world of investing globally. |
| 1:07.4 | And then we're going to take that information and parlay that into a conversation about |
| 1:12.7 | how to properly construct a portfolio. Specifically, we're going to share three really important |
| 1:19.4 | things that we think you should take into consideration when putting your portfolio together. |
| 1:25.1 | And no, keeping costs low isn't going to be one of them. You beat me to |
| 1:30.1 | it. We've beat that drum enough. Keeping costs low to us is table stakes. And I don't think that we need |
| 1:36.4 | to make that point again. If you're new to this podcast, go back and listen to prior episodes. |
| 1:41.3 | We can't talk about it enough. It is so critical to pay attention to |
| 1:45.1 | the fees and expenses, not just the transparent ones, but the ones that hide behind the scenes. |
| 1:49.8 | So we're going to leave that out. The three things that we're going to talk about today in regards |
| 1:53.2 | to portfolio construction are, number one, what asset classes belong in a portfolio? |
| 2:00.1 | There's all these asset classes that are out there. It's overwhelming, |
| 2:03.9 | large growth, small value, international emerging markets, junk bonds, convertible bonds, high yield |
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