Is There a Way to Improve on US Stocks Versus International Stocks?

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The US dollar has fallen in value and correspondingly just about all asset classes have recovered somewhat. The only thing that benefit from that are things like managed futures that happen to be trading on that currency pair. Do not use those kinds of metrics in evaluating US stocks versus international stocks because those things do not revert to a mean. Sometimes they just go off a cliff.

In this episode we answer emails from Gregory, MyContactInfo, Ralphio and Spencer. We discuss the overriding currency speculation aspect of investing in non-U.S. funds, keeping things simple during accumulation, leveraged funds, some academic analyses of managed funds and what to make of it, how to identify the basic factors of given funds and the Shplendid aspects of MORE COWBELL.

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Rational Reminder Leveraged Portfolios Video: Investing With Leverage (Borrowing to Invest, Leveraged ETFs) - YouTube

Rational Reminder Interview of Professors Berk and Binsbergen: Episode 220: Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen: The Arithmetic of Active Management, Revisited — Rational Reminder

Berk and Binsbergen 2014 Paper re Active Management: delivery.php (ssrn.com)

Rational Reminder Interview of Eduardo Repetto of Avantis: Episode 228: Eduardo Repetto: Deep Dive with Avantis Investors' CIO — Rational Reminder

Rick Ferri Interview of Eduardo Repetto of Avantis: Episode 43: Bogleheads on Investing – guest Eduardo Repetto, host Rick Ferri – Rick Ferri, CFA

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