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What Is Home Country Bias and Why Does It Exist?

This audio lesson is on home country bias, which is the propensity of investors to have most of their portfolio exposure in their domestic stock and bond markets even if their home country comprises only a small percentage of the world's capital markets. For example, the Australian stock market comprises only 3% of the world's equity market capitalization (i.e. its size relative to the rest of the world), but Australian investors have 74% of their stock portfolio allocated to Australian … [Read more...]

What Would Happen If Greece Exited the Euro

In the short-term a Greece exit from the Eurozone could cause a severe panic with global stock markets selling off and a flight to quality. Currently, markets are quite placid and seem to expect Greece to successfully negotiate a third bailout even though talks have broken off. A Greek exit is one of those one-off events that one can't plan for in terms of their investment strategy. It is an example of why I usually keep a cash balance and never have an allocation to stocks above a level … [Read more...]

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