Country Basket
Categories: International, Stocks, Bonds, Trading
We’re picking daisies…marigolds…lilies...
Say we want to fill a portfolio basket with just stocks representing the overall financial health of Italy. Is italy... healthy? Well, they smoke a lot. Drink lots of wine. Eat a bunch of pasta.
But there always seems to be a woman from some small village who’s celebrating her 117th birthday. Hmm.
A country basket is just an index fund of stocks representing a country. Like, if we’re doin’ Korea (South... the one not run by the crazy dictator with a strange fetish for dogs), we’re gonna have in that basket some Samsung, a load of Dae Woo, a hunk of Hyundai, and some nice barbecue on the side.
That’d be our Korean country basket, and it’s a good basket to fill if you’re just bullish on a country, but not really sure where exactly to place your bets. It’s like…instead of trying to decide between roulette, or poker, or slots...you just bet on the entire casino.
Buona fortuna.
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All right we're picking daisies, marigolds, lilies so uh how do we [Pictures of flowers]
rephrase in Italian? Like, we want to fill a portfolio basket with just stocks [Pouring a glass of red wine]
representing the overall financial health of Italy. Is Italy healthy? While
they smoke a lot they drink a lot of wine they eat a bunch of pasta but there
always seems to be a woman from some small village who's celebrating her [Old woman at a birthday party]
117th birthday over there. Well a country basket is just an index fund of
stocks representing a country. Like we're doing Korea... South we're gonna have
in that basket dunno some Samsung, a load of Daewoo, a hunk of Hyundai and some [Company stocks being added to the basket]
nice barbecue on the side. That'd be our Korean country basket and it's a good
basket to fill if you're just bullish on a country but not really sure which
flower on which to place your bets. It's like instead of trying to decide between [The stocks in the basket turn into flowers]
roulette or poker or slots... Well you just buy stock in Las Vegas
Sands you know you bet on the entire casino, and bueno Fortuna you know good [Someone checking their cards in a casino]
luck there pal, doesn't the house always win? Yeah so why do people keep going there?...