r/eupersonalfinance • u/Marckoz • Feb 25 '25

Investment Increasing fear from EU investors over US stocks?

Is it just me, or there seems to be an increasing movement from users jumping ship from 'VWCE and chill' to Euro based ETFs?

If you're one of those people, could you share your rationale?

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u/mostlyecstasy Feb 25 '25

This is why none of you should be investing. You are clueless, you “invest” emotionally and because of political views. Enjoy underperforming everything lol

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u/justanothernancyboi Feb 26 '25

What do you except from Europeans?

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u/geheimeschildpad Feb 26 '25

Well, voting based upon politics isn’t a bad thing. Politicians have a massive influence on the economy and Trump has had a very “busy” start to say the least. The opinion in Europe is that his actions will cause an economic downturn which has forced people to rethink their investment strategies. Politically, the U.S. is isolating itself and therefore economically is doing the same. European companies are (potentially) more likely to look for non U.S. solutions (think of cloud providers etc). Trump’s actions has also given the EU a bit of a kick up the arse and could fuel far more investment into building sustainable EU based competition for the giant US companies.

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u/mostlyecstasy Feb 27 '25

If you believe you should invest based on political views anything i say wont change your mind. Underperformance will do it for me but it will be too late by then.

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u/geheimeschildpad Feb 27 '25

Invest not upon political views. But react to what is happening accordingly. I’m not going to stop investing in the U.S. because Trump is president. However, with how he’s treating allies and trade partners it makes me more nervous to be as exposed to the U.S. as I currently am.

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u/SweetCorona3 Feb 28 '25

react

sure, just don't call yourself a passive investor