International shares Archives - Wealth Foundations

The changing shape of emerging markets

January 23, 2018

BRIC economies, emerging markets, growth portfolio, International shares, investment, risk and return

Emerging markets have recently re-emerged The two years to end December 2017 saw the MSCI Emerging Markets index (the most widely used benchmark for emerging market shares) massively outperform the…

International shares: To hedge or not to hedge?

October 26, 2009

asset allocation, currency hedging, diversification, diversified portfolio, exchange rate risk, International shares, risk reduction

Strong Aussie dollar wipes out international share gains … In our recent article, “Should you hold international shares in your investment portfolio?”, we argued that there are diversification or risk…

Should you hold international shares in your investment portfolio?

June 8, 2009

currency hedging, diversification, intelligent risk, intelligent risk taking, International shares, investment strategy, risk reduction

Invest in international shares for reduced risk … Many individual investors, particularly do-it-yourselfers, do not hold international shares in their investment portfolios. Why would you, they ask – returns have…