Is there a better stock market than the US stock market?

eftychis 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To augment sibling replies: depends on one's, subjective and highly personal, portfolio and financial strategy. But U.S. has a strong stock market(s).

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missingcolours 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

VXUS is up almost twice the S&P 500 year over year, although some of that is likely the weakening of the dollar.

	▲	FreakLegion 35 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Compare them over the last 5 or 10 or 15 years. Since VXUS's inception the S&P has outperformed it by over 7x.
	▲	aynyc 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Going back how’s many years? I checked recently and VTI easily out perform in the last 5 years.
	▲	cesarvarela 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You should also compare risk, not just returns.

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mylifeandtimes 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

depends what decade you are talking about.

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scarmig 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not really, but diversification often useful; it reduces variance, which is a common goal. And there have been decades (e.g. 2000-2010) where international stocks outperformed American ones.

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therobots927 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

VEA. Look it up. Europe, Hong Kong, etc have been outperforming the US for over a year now.

Google the ticker and compare to VTI then get back to me. And that’s without even mentioning gold.

	▲	no_wizard 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		My VT shares have risen in bear direct proportion to VTIs relative underperformance. The main difference is the international exposure of VT.
	▲	deadbabe 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I did, and I see most years it has not beaten VTI… and if you invested 10k in them for the past 10 years VTI is near 2.5x more money. May be worth it for diversification, but you’d be very lucky if it outperformed the next 10 years.