It's Tuesday, August 20th.

Welcome to Market Foolery.

I'm Chris Hill and Strategy Week continues.

We're talking international investing.

So of course, joining me in studio for Motleyville Asset Management, Tim Hanson, thanks for being here.

My pleasure.

Welcome to Strategy Week.

Strategy Week.

It's like Shark Week.

It is, idiot.

It's not as big.

It will be.

It will be eventually. My first question when it comes to international investing,

is this one of those things that for someone who is looking at their portfolio, do you consider this to be a must in the way

that Ron Gross has said before that every portfolio, if it's going to be balanced, has got to

have some exposure to energy.

Do you look at international investing and say look if you want to balance portfolio

there's got to be some exposure to international markets in there?

There's an argument for that. I believe that argument but also it just has to do

with you know I'm a I'm a stock picker at heart and there are you know 10 that five

10,000 companies listed in the United States, but you know there's

50,000 companies listed around the world more. Why limit yourself, you know, to a

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