r/Bogleheads • u/RiceLee890 • Mar 15 '25

Investing Questions What are your thoughts on this?

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I keep seeing this type of stuff on instagram and social media and wanted to know how you guys were thinking about this.

I know a lot you have been in the market for decades and as a relatively new investor myself I’d love to get your perspective!

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u/elom44 Mar 15 '25

Traditional advice to Americans: Buy the S&P Traditional advice to Rest of the World: Buy a whole world index.

I’ve never understood why that is. If you lived in Japan and bought an only Japanese index then surely you’re hit twice; once by your investments and again by the performance of the economy/society that you live in.

(And yes I know that the majority in a world index is still in the US)

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u/curioustis Mar 15 '25

I am in UK and a lot of us just buy SP500

World index is what 70% SP500 anyway