I thought doing a search would pull up some posts on this, but didn't seem to find any devoted to this subject.
With all that is going down in China and Europe now, it becomes difficult to want to allocate very much to this segment.(but I know things ultimately change) In doing some research on the subject it seems to say that holding international stocks evens out the volatility, but depending on the % held, not all times. Also, US stocks over time have out performed international more times than not.
Also when speaking of selecting a % to hold such as 20% - 40%, I am assuming they are speaking of the % of your equity holding, not your combined equity/bond holdings. Am I correct in that?
It would be interesting to hear your perspective on this, and how did you arrive at your number.
Here is one such article on the subject. http://www.vanguard.com/pdf/ISGGEB.pdf
With all that is going down in China and Europe now, it becomes difficult to want to allocate very much to this segment.(but I know things ultimately change) In doing some research on the subject it seems to say that holding international stocks evens out the volatility, but depending on the % held, not all times. Also, US stocks over time have out performed international more times than not.
Also when speaking of selecting a % to hold such as 20% - 40%, I am assuming they are speaking of the % of your equity holding, not your combined equity/bond holdings. Am I correct in that?
It would be interesting to hear your perspective on this, and how did you arrive at your number.
Here is one such article on the subject. http://www.vanguard.com/pdf/ISGGEB.pdf