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		throw0101d on April 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The death of the 60/40 portfolio > A slight over simplification, for example s&p was negative 1% per year from Jan 2000 to Dec 2009. Plus the cost of your leverage. For the 2000s, a US-only investor would only have been saved from the S&P500 by having at least 20% bonds and rebalancing: * https://www.forbes.com/sites/advisor/2010/09/13/its-not-real... Of course if you were not US-only, but rather internationally diversified (and rebalanced), you would also have been fine. Diversification is important, even for Americans (cited sources in the description): * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FXuMs6YRCY

nuclearnice1 on April 24, 2024 [–]

Thanks for the great video on international diversification.

I noticed he has another on the related topic of bias toward investing in one’s home country.

https://youtu.be/qYedjI03Q0g?si=-wOqSA96cmScFInq

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