West Loop Financial LLC‘Free Lunch’ Investing Takes Time To Cook – West Loop Financial LLC https://www.westloopfinancial.com Evolutionize Site Wed, 19 Aug 2020 20:50:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.22 ‘Free Lunch’ Investing Takes Time To Cook https://www.westloopfinancial.com/2016/10/31/free-lunch-investing-takes-time-cook/ https://www.westloopfinancial.com/2016/10/31/free-lunch-investing-takes-time-cook/#respond Mon, 31 Oct 2016 09:00:07 +0000 http://evolvemypractice.com/?p=3192 As the director of research for The BAM Alliance, I’ve been getting lots of calls recently from investors questioning their international equity investments. This hasn’t been a surprise, as any time an asset class does poorly, a significant number of investors will question why they own that asset. One particular inquiry I received addressed the...

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]]> As the director of research for The BAM Alliance, I’ve been getting lots of calls recently from investors questioning their international equity investments. This hasn’t been a surprise, as any time an asset class does poorly, a significant number of investors will question why they own that asset.

One particular inquiry I received addressed the fact that international equities not only had underperformed since 2009, but they crashed in 2008—just when the benefits from diversification were needed most, they failed to materialize. The investor thus questioned the reason for including international equities in his portfolio.

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