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On our most recent radio broadcast, YieldShares Founder and ETF industry veteran Christian Magoon joined us to talk about the YieldShares High Income ETF (ticker YYY) as well as some of the potential benefits of Exchange Traded Funds. Christian is well-versed in the industry, having been involved in the launch of some 50 ETFs. He’s also been recognized by Financial Planning magazine as an “ETF Pioneer” and Institutional Investor has named him one of the “Five People to Watch in The U.S. ETF Industry”. We asked Christian about the roadmap to success for an upstart ETF sponsor such as YieldShares and explained why these new entrants into the ETF market should have investors excited about the future of investing.
We also spent some time on the show reemphasizing the role of international stocks in your portfolio, particularly in light of the recent outperformance of international stocks compared to US stocks. For a variety of reasons, many US-based investors tend to load up on US stocks and significantly underweight (or ignore altogether) international stocks. We explained why developed international and emerging market stocks can be important components of a well-diversified portfolio. For investors who primarily hold US stocks, we would recommend reviewing this wonderful chart from Callan Associates which shows how different asset classes have performed over the past twenty years. You might be surprised to learn that international stocks were the top performer more often than US stocks. There are a number of broad-based, extremely low cost ETFs that offer international stock exposure and we discussed several on the show.
