{"id":29631,"date":"2012-05-14T17:50:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T21:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/2012\/05\/how-to-instantly-diversify-your-portfolio-by-70\/"},"modified":"2012-05-14T17:50:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T21:50:57","slug":"how-to-instantly-diversify-your-portfolio-by-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2012\/05\/14\/how-to-instantly-diversify-your-portfolio-by-70\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Instantly Diversify Your Portfolio By 70%"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article by Investment U<\/a> <\/p>\n

\"How<\/p>\n

In order to have a truly diversified portfolio, you must include a healthy dose of foreign investments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Imagine if throughout your working career you only did what you were supposed to 30% of the time.<\/p>\n

Would you have been showered with raises, bonuses and praise? Or do you think you would\u2019ve been left underpaid, unappreciated and unsuccessful?<\/p>\n

The likely outcome is the latter. It\u2019s obvious.<\/p>\n

Yet many investors don\u2019t realize they\u2019re making a similar mistake when it comes to their financial portfolio.<\/p>\n

That is, they\u2019re only doing 30% of the \u201cwork\u201d necessary to get the most out of their investments.<\/p>\n

How are they doing this?<\/p>\n

By simply ignoring companies that operate outside of the United States. Let me show you what I mean…<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a Global World… and It\u2019s Not Going Away<\/strong><\/h2>\n

According to The World Bank<\/a>, the U.S. accounts for 30% of the world\u2019s total equity market cap.<\/p>\n

Granted, that\u2019s a huge chunk for any one nation.<\/p>\n

But it also means 70% of the all the publicly traded opportunities around the world are found outside of America.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s not all…<\/p>\n