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VWO - There's No Place Like Home: The Case For And Against Extreme Home Bias In Equity Investing

If you're a US investor, international equity exposure has never been so readily available at such a low cost. Nonetheless, surveys indicate US investors typically allocate 80 – 85% of their equity holdings to US equities (e.g. (VTI) (VOO)), much higher than their proportion of global market value. We recently wrote about how this kind of "Home Bias" can impact expected returns. Here we turn to evaluating 10 arguments often heard in support of high levels of Home Bias.1

1. US equities have outperformed non-US equities by 170% over the

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Company Name: Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets
Stock Symbol: VWO
Market: NYSE

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