Advisers Battle U.S. Investors’ Home Bias Ss Valuations Soar

Ted

FYI: (This is a follow-up article.)
American stock investors can’t get enough of the securities that offer some of the worst value for money, both geographically and historically.

U.S. stocks have never been so expensive, aside from two brief periods before some of the biggest market crashes in history. This hasn’t hurt their popularity among U.S. investors, which tend to hold more domestic equities in their portfolio than investors elsewhere, according to a recent white paper by Vanguard.
Regards,
Ted
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-26/advisers-battle-u-s-investors-home-bias-as-valuations-soar

BobC

We don't battle our clients at all. For better or worse, we have tended to overweight international stocks compared to other firms. Fortunately, things have turned, and investors are being rewarded nicely. Yes, we got some griping over the last few years as the S&P kicked butt, but we hung in there. Fortunately, we had significant core holdings in MAPIX and ICEIX (SGOVX in our conservative accounts) that have really limited downside participation.