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8:25 pm
July 11, 2011


Scot Blythe

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I suspect few Canadians have more than 30% of their investments outside Canada — the old Foreign Property Rule. I'm currently working up an article on this.

Any thoughts? Are Canadians wise to stay home?

2:30 pm
July 14, 2011


mark.yamada.1

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Scot:

Canadians are typical of investors around the world. If you check other countries like the U.S. Japan, Australia, the foreign weight is 20-30%. I think the UK is different but there is a herding phenomenon going on. Is it wise? Depends on the measurement period!

4:45 pm
July 14, 2011


SL.temp

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Hi Scot, I covered this in a recent article about U.S. equities.  Apparently the Canadian market is far more volatile than investors realize…once again, tricked by upside volatility into thinking there is no downside:

http://www.advisor.ca/news/ind…..good-52931