Global Equity Investing

A blueprint for global investing which discusses how investors can control portfolio risk, how and why international stock markets differ in pattern and volatility, how the US compares to other world stock markets, simple trading methods such as trend-following techniques, how emerging markets figure into the overseas investment equation, why a buy-and-hold strategy and traditional holdings no longer add up to low risk, the historical reasons why risk has increased in overseas investing, and the rationale behind diversification. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR