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what percentage of my stock portfolio should be international (non-us) stocks?
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rephrasing your question: am i diversified if i have more than 50% us stocks?    i would say that you can certainly be diversified and have more than 50% of your portfolio invested in us stocks.  i view the amount of international stocks (non-us) as a risk choice.  my observations have been that my international stocks have higher risk which comes with a higher reward.   i'm not comfortable with putting too much of my portfolio into a very high risk category. i personally invest 25% directly in mutual funds that invest in foreign stocks.   when you couple that with the money i invest in us stocks via mutual funds that have foreign interests (coke, ge, etc.), i'm somewhat over 25% international in my portfolio.
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