Home Bias & Poor Diversification
In this week’s episode, Director of Investments, Jay Pluimer discusses the dangers of investor bias and lack of diversification in your portfolio. Home Bias means that investors tend to invest more heavily in Domestic Stocks and Bonds. Doing so can lead to missed opportunities from international and emerging markets equities growth. These missed opportunities coupled with portfolio overlap can lead to vulnerabilities and a lack of diversification in your portfolio. Portfolio overlap can often be overlooked because it requires taking a deep dive into the holdings across your mutual funds and ETFs. It is possible that you may own […]