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199 Plus: Lending To Family, Investing While Living Abroad, Upstream MLPs

April 7, 2018 by David Stein · Updated May 12, 2021

This week April 7, 2018, we discuss what to consider when investing in a relative's start up company. We analyze how to decide as a worker living abroad how much to invest in one's host country versus one's home country. Finally, we look at developments for upstream master limited partnerships. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: family, home country bias, India, master limited partnerships, MLPs

85: Are You Home Country Biased?

December 2, 2015 by David Stein · Updated January 13, 2022

Why you should invest outside of your home country. Photo by Fred Mast In this episode you'll learn: Why investing in multinational companies is not the same as global investing.What is home country bias and why does it exist.How home country bias differs between different countries.How to get inexpensive overseas stock exposure.Why have both currency hedged and unhedged international equity exposure. Show Notes The Role of Home Bias In Global Asset Allocation … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: home country bias, stocks

What Is Home Country Bias and Why Does It Exist?

February 24, 2015 by David Stein · Updated June 23, 2020

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...]

Filed Under: Audio, Audio and Video Lessons Tagged With: home country bias

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