It is natural to hold only companies from where you live. But any single country can underperform for a decade or more — this has happened to every major market at some point. Owning companies globally means your retirement does not depend on one government, one currency, or one economy's bad run.
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Holding only your home country's shares means…
Lower risk, since you understand them
Concentrated exposure to one economy's decade correct
Better returns, guaranteed
Exposure is how much of your money rides on one outcome, and putting all of it on one country is a lot of it. Familiarity feels like safety and is not the same thing. Every market has had its lost decade.
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