Foreign Exposure Simplified: Vanguard's Total International Stock ETF for 2025 Portfolio Diversification

Investors are often told that diversification is among the most important things you can focus on. It helps you avoid putting all of your eggs in one basket, which is going to be bad if that basket gets dropped. One key way to diversify your portfolio is to add foreign exposure. Vanguard has a way for you to do that with one simple investment, the Vanguard Total International Stock ETF (NASDAQ: VXUS). Here's what you need to know.Think about the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) for a quick second. It's entirely focused on U.S. listed companies, but it's made up of very large number of stocks, roughly 500 at any given time. Not all of these stocks do well at the same time. For example, right now, there's a small group of large companies, known as the Magnificent Seven, that are doing particularly well. They are driving the broader average higher.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool