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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Investing, Education, Business, How To

4.5810 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Most Americans invest primarily in US stocks. The same holds true for other countries. How has that worked out for, say, the Japanese. With the help of a recent Morningstar study, we make the case for global portfolios. Listeners want to know: If it makes sense for a child to skip collge and go directly to a trade? Is it okay to invest in Avantis ETFs like AVGE? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesQuestions? Comments? Click!

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0:00.0

Reality Radio for a really great future.

0:08.0

We're talking real money.

0:10.8

For many years.

0:12.7

For many, many years, long ago in a galaxy far, far away.

0:17.6

No, many, many, for many years, we have argued, we actually argued on the air,

0:22.7

on our shows, with the legendary Jack Bogle of Vanguard, may he rest in peace. Our argument with him,

0:31.2

well, we actually had a couple, but the big argument we had with him is an argument that came up in yesterday's podcast.

0:40.7

And that is, why in the world would anyone need to own international stocks in their portfolios?

0:49.1

As a matter of fact, the question was posed to us yesterday based on an article in a physician's magazine with a quote from

0:55.9

somebody at Morningstar who was saying that the international markets don't work.

1:01.1

Well, it's funny.

1:03.8

The exact same day that I put that podcast up, Christine Benz of Morningstar published an article about investing internationally.

1:16.3

Hi, everybody.

1:17.4

I'm Don.

1:18.7

Over there is Tom.

1:20.2

This is talking real money, the podcast, and this is where we do something very important.

1:25.8

We talk about money, but only the real stuff,

1:30.8

not the fake stuff. And the real fact here, Tom, is our international, as her article said,

1:37.4

are international stocks worth the bother? Well, since you raised his name, Jack Bogle,

1:43.2

according to Christine Benz, and we know this,

1:46.2

argued that international stocks didn't merit inclusion in investors' portfolios. We, as you said,

1:52.0

heard it right out of his mouth. We also used to argue with them about tilting portfolios to small

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