Are You Invested Abroad?

Are you invested abroad? For those of you that are still brave enough to keep your money in the global markets, bravo for you I say. I was recently reading a new article over at the Motley Fool website and it listed the top five global markets that have given the investor the best return on their money in the last year. As you would expect none of the top five countries are any that you might have guessed and if you did then your investments are probably doing really well for you right now and better than most

So what are those top five countries according to the Motley Fool article. They are in this order Venezuela, Columbia, Chile, South Africa and Tunisia. Of those five, only the top country of Venezuela was the only stock market to return a positive return on investment and they are the only country to do that in the last year. So don’t feel to bad if you were smart enough to diversify your portfolio with investments abroad. Every global market failed to return a positive on your investments except for one. To bad there is a constant threat of their leader claiming a full on dictatorship and nationalization of his country. Not exactly the kind of environment that is conducive to bringing in foreign investors.

The purpose of the article at least what I got out of their little list was to demonstrate to the every day investor that there is still plenty of money to be made by investing abroad. You may have to do a little more digging that you had to in the past as the winning investment funds abroad are still out there they just may be a little more hidden. Thanks to the terrible state of the global economies as a whole.

Finding the best returns on your global investments may not be as easy as it was in the past but that does not mean that you should stop investing abroad. Funding abroad may actually be more important to the survival of your investment portfolio than ever before. Diversification is still key to assure that your money will continue to grow in the future. I know for a lot of us the very idea of even investing a small portion of your money in any stock market right now may seem like a gamble that you are not willing to take.  We can all agree that pretty much all of us have been financially stressed in the past year as we have all watched the global markets rocket down the stock market mountain.

I don’t know about you and the status of your investment portfolio but I know of quite a few people that have lost small to large fortunes in just the last year. The majority of them have however managed to hang on to what little investments they had left and have stayed in the investment game. Every single one of them have stayed as diverse as they were or have even spread their funds out even more to shield themselves from further major losses on their stock portfolios.

I am curios what effect do you think this past year has had on the everyday small time investor? Do you think people have pulled their money out of stocks altogether or do you think more people have managed to hang onto their investing courage and pushed their investment portfolios to be even more diversified than they were before? It will be interesting to see when the dust settles from all this economical distress to see how the “new” investor will allocate their money? Will investments abroad come back stronger than ever or will people be so investing gun shy that it may be a few years before we see the kind of investments abroad that we had seen in the last five years leading up to the recession.

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