Dear Reader,
Home bias is an invisible enemy that cripples portfolios over time.
If your portfolio is focused only on domestic markets, you’re suffering from home bias. Many investors fall victim to home bias because home markets are the easiest to trade and to track.
Doing so, however, narrows your universe of opportunity and rewards you with smaller gains than if you had a fully internationalized element of your portfolio.
It also piles all your risk in one place, exposed to a single economy and a single government.
For example, if you trade US markets exclusively and the Federal Reserve makes a major misstep that causes the markets to drop quickly, your entire portfolio takes a severe hit.
The cure for home bias, as you’ll see below, is to look abroad for truly diverse opportunities that insulate you from domestic risk and give you a complementary stream of profit potential.
Even better, all the opportunities I’ll share with you are listed on major, regulated, global exchanges, and most can be traded using a conventional brokerage account.
Furthermore, all the opportunities you’ll learn about have been personally investigated by an expert team you’ll meet today.
Every idea I reveal below comes from “on the ground” local research—not from the 48th floor of a New York City office building.
Hello, my name is Kevin Brekke.
I’m the managing editor of World Money Analyst, the premier global opportunities advisory from Mauldin Economics.
The goal of World Money Analyst is simple.
Through independent research and local knowledge, the team of experts I speak to on a daily basis delivers the best international investing opportunities right to you.
As I mentioned, the opportunities my team delivers trade on major, established global exchanges (that you can in many cases access with online brokerages from here in the US).
Every opportunity has been personally and fully vetted by one of my team of expert analysts.
Today, I’d like to show you some of the successes the World Money Analyst team has delivered to readers like you in the past year.
I’d also like to urge you to think seriously about the benefits you will gain from defeating home bias in your own portfolio.
In short, if you don’t have any international exposure at present, you’re at risk.
Simply put, all your financial eggs are in a shaky basket controlled by Washington DC policymakers and Wall Street traders.
World Money Analyst, as my team and I will demonstrate in detail below, can help you simply and efficiently offset the risks of home bias…
… And give you actionable strategies you can use to collect the benefits of internationalization beyond simply participating in foreign equities markets.
I’m talking about benefits like investing in international real estate, or how to buy and store precious metals abroad. I’ll explain more about how World Money Analyst can help you implement these strategies in a moment.
Now, without delay, here are some examples of World Money Analyst at work, starting with Russia—perhaps the best example of the international bull market under way for select stocks…
With Sochi as recent host of the Olympics, Russia had a worldwide spotlight trained directly on its culture and economy.
Lost in the gossip about whether or not hotels would be completed in time or questions about adequate Olympics security is the undeniable fact that the Russian economy has matured into a major contributor to global growth.
That doesn’t mean the Russian markets have gone straight up. The Russian Micex Index, for example, has been essentially flat for the past year. Due to the economic trajectory of the country overall, however, our Russia-investing expert sees incredible value there right now.
And despite recent political unrest in the former Soviet bloc nation of Ukraine, Russia’s ongoing political evolution speaks to the potential locked inside its stock market.
To figure out the best opportunities right now, I recently spoke with Alexei Medved, World Money Analyst’s Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) expert.
Alexei was born and raised in Russia and received an MBA from the Wharton Business School.
For over 20 years, he has run an independent firm with a focus on investing in Russia and the CIS.
To give you an idea of Alexei’s keen understanding of the Russian market, consider these trades he detailed for World Money Analyst readers…
In the January 2013 issue, Alexei recommended the shares of Aeroflot, the largest Russian airline.
Aeroflot trades on the Moscow Micex Exchange and on the Frankfurt Exchange as a GDR (Global Depository Receipt) under the symbol AETG.
Just 30 days later, in the February issue, Alexei advised readers to sell half the Aeroflot position for a 34.8% gain.
The other half of the position remained open and kept readers positioned for further upside.
Sure enough, in the January 2014 issue Alexei recommended closing the position for a total gain, including dividends, of 84% in 12 months.
And Aeroflot isn’t Alexei’s only big win for World Money Analyst readers…
In the February 2013 issue, Alexei again advised readers to self half their position in Transneft, the Russian operator of the world’s largest oil pipeline system.
Transneft trades on the Micex under TRNFP.
Alexei’s initial recommendation appeared in September 2012. When he followed up in February 2013 and told readers to consider selling half, you could’ve booked a 35.4% gain in five months.
A Russian airline and an oil pipeline company. Did similar NYSE-listed stocks offer that potential in the timeframes that Alexei’s recommendations delivered stout gains? Take a look…
In the case of Aeroflot, compare 34.8% gains over January-February 2013 to the price action of Delta or American Airlines. Both stocks went essentially nowhere in that span.
Or compare Transneft’s 35.4% gain between September 2012-February 2013 to Enbridge or Kinder Morgan. Both stocks were crippled by volatility and delivered essentially no returns in that period.
These results speak for themselves. The message: the best Russian investment opportunities are one way to defeat the home bias I mentioned earlier.
To benefit fully and most effectively, however, you need World Money Analyst at your side.
But what does Alexei like now, and what does he see in the months ahead for the Russian economy?
Here’s a sampling of a recent conversation I had with him from his office in London.
I asked Alexei to share his thoughts on Russian markets for the year ahead; his comments make a clear case for huge upcoming opportunity in Russia and the CIS.
First, the average P/E on the Micex is about 4.5, far below many other international markets. Russian stocks are cheap. They are deep-value stocks for the taking.
Russia also enjoys essentially full employment, in stark contrast to the US and Western Europe. The Russian economy, for better or worse, is not one weighed down by entitlement spending or bloated social programs.
The country’s fiscal affairs as a whole are also in much better shape, with external government debt-to-GDP around 10%. The US, as you know, currently stands at approximately 95%.
And your opportunity extends beyond just Russia…
Currently, Alexei has an open World Money Analyst recommendation on a Kazakhstan-based company integral to construction and transportation infrastructure.
You can read the full transcript of my recent conversation with Alexei at the World Money Analyst page at the Mauldin Economics website. I’ll show you how in a moment.
During our conversation, Alexei covered Russian and CIS macroeconomic issues…
…The outlook for the ruble and if it should be considered one of the “resource” currencies…
… Plus the implications of Russia recently becoming a full member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and what it means for the competitiveness of Russian companies going forward.
Before I tell you more about how to get access to Alexei’s latest recommendations to World Money Analyst readers, I’d like to quickly move to another part of the world and introduce another member of my team of global experts.
Ankur Shah is the World Money Analyst man on the ground for Southeast Asian investing opportunities.
Ankur is a graduate of Harvard Business School and has nearly a decade of equity research experience covering emerging and frontier markets.
He is also the founder of the Value Investing India Report, a leading value-oriented journal of Indian financial markets.
I recently spoke with Ankur to get a sense of where he sees opportunities in the year ahead and to review some of the recent positions he recommended to World Money Analyst readers.
Ankur has shown readers like you gains of…
19.7% in 2 months from Infosys, the Indian IT consulting company; and
21.3% gains from SingTel, a Singapore-based telecom company, in just 13 months.
In the March 2013 issue, Ankur recommended World Money Analyst readers take a position in one of the largest lenders (on the basis of total assets) in Indonesia.
This company trades easily on the Frankfurt Exchange and as of February 2014, shows a respectable 6% gain.
Ankur has also recommended the shares of one of Asia’s largest exchanges and a Singpore-traded conglomerate that sources commodities from lowest-cost producers, then resells them in rapidly growing markets.
In Southeast Asia, real investment returns are being driven by a growing consumption of items that you and I take for granted every day.
If an Indian family buys its first computer and hooks it up to the Internet…
If a worker in Singapore gets a new cellphone, an Indonesian family opens a bank account, or the rapidly expanding middle class in Vietnam spends more on meat or transportation…
You can benefit from Ankur’s comprehensive research and World Money Analyst coverage that spans Southeast Asia.
Opportunity in this region of the world, as you know, doesn’t come primarily from balance-sheet maneuvering.
It comes from people. It comes from people working hard to educate themselves, to increase opportunity for their families, to buy homes, and from those people spending their growing disposable incomes.
This mobility across entire cultures has a “rising tide” effect on wide swaths of publicly traded companies. It impacts currency strength. It affects global banks.
And it leads directly to more opportunity for you as a World Money Analyst reader.
Here’s what Ankur sees in the year ahead for his coverage territory…
The ongoing monetary expansion experiment in Japan, the US, and the EU will eventually lead to higher rates of inflation in these developed markets, Ankur reported.
You’ve heard John Mauldin describe this fallout as “deflation now, inflation later.”
As developing countries attempt to keep their currencies competitive with a weakening yen, for example, prices will rise as more urbanization and industrialization continues to increase wages.
Due to growing workforces, more disposable income, and increasing education levels, economic trends in developing markets are pointed up, while the longer term trends in Japan, in the US, and for the EU are pointed down.
This argument Ankur eloquently makes in our recent conversation represents a condensed summary of why you shouldn’t fear the recent selloff in “emerging markets.”
The overall trends of growth in select Asian markets—a growing middle class and expanding wealth—hold true despite the recent negative sentiment surrounding what analysts lump together as “emerging markets.”
Temporary investment outflows in certain regions shouldn’t cloud your vision of the bigger picture. Weakness in Argentina, for example, has little to no impact on Singapore or Indonesia. This false understanding of emerging markets—and the potential they truly offer—is one of the factors that lead many investors to succumb to home bias.
That’s precisely why World Money Analyst reaches out each month to its global network of experts like Alexei Medved and Ankur Shah.
When you start reading World Money Analyst, not only is a entire globe’s worth of opportunity open to you, you also benefit from the security of knowing that what you’re reading has been investigated by a local expert, not an analyst sitting as his desk in New York or Chicago.
And your opportunity doesn’t stop at the Russian border or at Asia’s South China Sea.
Mature, developed international markets can also offer just as much potential when you commit to internationalizing your portfolio…
Dirk Steinhoff, the World Money Analyst expert for Europe and Scandinavia, has over 20 years’ experience as an asset manager.
Today, he’s the chief investment officer, Portfolio Management, at the BFI Capital Group.
Dirk has a keen eye for identifying special situations and niche businesses where investors can grab significant upside by buying hidden strength not seen by mainstream investors.
He has delivered gains like 21% in 3 months—June to September 2013—on a Swedish retailer that trades on the Stockholm Exchange.
He’s also shown World Money Analyst readers a 62.8% unrealized gain on a London-traded way to simultaneously short the Japanese yen and go long the US dollar.
In addition to my recent conversations with Alexei Medved and Ankur Shah, I also spoke to Dirk about opportunities upcoming in Europe and Scandinavia set to appear in the pages of World Money Analyst in the months ahead.
I’ll show you how to read a transcript of my interview with Dirk in a moment.
But your world of opportunity doesn’t end here. In fact, I haven’t even mentioned Latin American markets yet…
When you agree to test-drive World Money Analyst today, you’ll also learn the full story on well-researched global profit opportunities like:
55.8% gains thus far from a Latin American specialty food maker that trades on the New York Stock Exchange, courtesy of our Latin American expert Claudio Maulhardt.
37.1% gains from another New York-traded play, a large integrated steelmaker, also a benefit of Claudio’s personal investigations.
13.9% in just over 3 months from an Argentine media company that trades in London.
Even international plays like 28.1% in 13 months from a Greek shipping company listed on the NYSE, courtesy of our US-based macro analyst Robert Ross.
Robert has also handed World Money Analyst readers a 9.7% gain in just over 2 months from another NYSE-traded company that designs and fabricates application-specific chips for computers and cellphones.
Before I show you more, I should pause and tell you about myself, as well as how World Money Analyst is positioned to help you internationalize your portfolio safely and effectively.
When you agree to try World Money Analyst today, each month you’ll receive a full report from the team of global analysts and me.
The typical monthly issue offers two actionable equity-based ideas, a no-nonsense dose of macro commentary, as well as updates on previously featured companies that have released recent news.
You’ll also hear from international experts on currencies and commodities…
…Precious metals investing, interest rates, debt, government policy…
…And also ideas on ways to internationalize your life with secondary passports, foreign bank accounts, and international real estate.
No one has the time, after all, to fully investigate all the opportunities that comprise a fully diversified international portfolio.
My team and I take serious our responsibility to keep you in the know.
The ability to deliver the analysis you need to benefit over the long term from the best international opportunities comes from local knowledge…
From personal investigations… and from quality reporting on the ground wherever an opportunity might present itself.
Not only can you follow a model portfolio at the World Money Analyst website, you can also rest easy knowing you’ll receive an action email alert if you need to make a timely move.
Personally, I’ve seen firsthand the extent to which local knowledge can inform not just a portfolio, but a worldview as well.
My residence résumé spans the US from coast to coast, including Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, and San Diego. I lived for 8 years in the Baden-Baden region of Germany. And since 2007 I’ve lived in Switzerland.
In the past year, I’ve traveled to Singapore and Malaysia to investigate asset diversification options like using foreign banks and brokerages.
I met with local experts. I visited precious metals vaults and brokerage bullpens.
In short, I demanded to see with my own eyes the tangible structures and people behind the ideas and services I would later write about in the pages of World Money Analyst.
You can expect that same level of commitment and research in every communication you receive from my World Money Analyst team.
Later this year, for example, I’ll travel to India to investigate the process of opening a brokerage account to trade Indian exchanges.
And even though investing in India holds enormous promise, I’m not about to make any recommendation to World Money Analyst readers until I do my own independent research.
Only when a company or service checks all of my due diligence boxes will I bring you a comprehensive review that includes all the details you need to decide if its right for you.
That’s the guiding principle behind how World Money Analyst removes the uncertainties that prevent many investors from going global.
In a nutshell, many investors think internationalization is too risky and too difficult.
My team and I put in the time and the travel to effectively reduce risk as much as possible.
And, of course, we only recommend international investing ideas that trade on major exchanges subject to the level of oversight and regulation Western investors expect.
My point is…
You don’t want your entire portfolio, for example, exposed to one currency, one political ideology, or one central bank’s policies.
That’s a home-bias recipe for disaster.
Instead, you should seek the flexibility and international streams of potential gains provided by elite-level local analysts with intimate knowledge of markets the masses ignore.
That’s how you benefit from opportunities others consider “hidden” or “too tough to find.” Investing internationally also forces you to think internationally.
What if a US automaker hits a snag trying to push into a new market abroad? Maybe that automaker is facing stiff local competition. Maybe that local competition is publicly traded.
That’s how international understanding leads to complementary gain streams in your portfolio.
Macro global understanding has a secondary benefit as well.
The better you understand global markets and the more exposed you are to them, the better you understand the economic forces that drive your home markets.
In short, by reading World Money Analyst, not only will you successfully benefit from international opportunity, you’ll invest better in your home markets as well.
To make your decision to try World Money Analyst risk-free and as easy as possible, I’d like to describe two important benefits you’ll receive if you reply today…
… Then I’ll show you why there’s an urgent reason why your response today is so important.
As I’ve mentioned several times, ALL the recommendations you’ll see in the pages of World Money Analyst trade on major, regulated global exchanges.
However, some stocks you’ll read about have low trading volume or a structural oddity (like how often dividends are paid) that requires special attention as you build a position.
That’s why, to get you trading as quickly, cheaply, and efficiently as possible, my team and I have compiled a report on international brokerage options.
As you’ll see, in the vast majority of cases you can trade World Money Analyst recommendations with a simple online brokerage account based in the US.
Even if that is the case for you, my team and I would like you to accept our new report called World Money Analyst 2014 Global Outlook and Get-Started Guide.
This report shows you what my team of analysts likes best right now…
… And shows you how to easily open a brokerage account capable of handling all the foreign-listed opportunities you’ll see in World Money Analyst each month.
Plus, as an immediate bonus, when you agree to test World Money Analyst, you can read the collected and unedited transcripts of the interviews I recently conducted with Ankur Shah, our Southeast Asian expert…
As well as my conversations with Alexei Medved, who covers Russia and the CIS, and Dirk Steinhoff, whose territory includes Europe and Scandinavia…
These transcripts show you what each expert is thinking right now, what to expect for the year ahead, and where they’ve been focusing their research work in recent months.
Now here’s why your decision to try out World Money Analyst today is so urgent…
A year of World Money Analyst monthly issues, alerts, portfolio tracking, reports, and bonus content costs $179.
That’s a 100% risk-free price.
You have 90 days to try out World Money Analyst to see if it’s right for you.
If you decide you don’t like it, you can get your entire $179 back, no questions asked.
The reason why I’ve shown so many gains that World Money Analyst has delivered in the past year is because this is the last time you’ll have a chance to join for just $179 for a full year.
I absolutely cannot let any doubt remain in your mind.
If you’ve ever wanted to add international exposure to your portfolio quickly and easily…
If you’ve ever wondered how you could defeat home bias and protect your portfolio against the risk of a sinking US dollar or runaway deficits…
Or if you’ve ever sought internationalization strategies in the past and became frustrated with seemingly complex bureaucratic hurdles…
Now is the moment to initiate a membership to World Money Analyst. You will NEVER see a cheaper offer for a full year ever again.
When my publisher decides to reopen subscriptions to World Money Analyst in the future, the published price will be at least $399 (perhaps higher) for all new members.
If you decided to research Russia, Indonesia, and Latin America yourself in an attempt to find the best opportunities, you’d face at least $10,000 in flight costs.
Plus thousands more in local travel, fixer agents to set meetings, accommodations…
You’d spend weeks just setting up appointments with local experts.
Then you’d face weeks more time vetting the opportunities you learned about.
Or you could simply read World Money Analyst.
You get…
This report covers the World Money Analyst global macro overview and shows you how to set up a foreign trading-capable brokerage account in minutes.
As you can see, this level of insight, access, and concrete investment recommendations is a steal at $179 for a full year.
And this offer today is the last time you will ever see World Money Analyst for this price.
I urge you not to allow this opportunity to slip away.
Taking action today insulates you from the home-bias risk of focusing exclusively on domestic markets and dollar-denominated investments.
Taking action today also locks you in at the lowest rate you will ever see in the future for a full year of World Money Analyst analysis, recommendations, and bonus benefits.
The entire global team of analysts and I look forward to welcoming you on board.
Sincerely,
Kevin Brekke
Managing Editor
World Money Analyst
P.S. While many of the gains you’ve seen above appeared in less than a year, it’s important to note that World Money Analyst isn’t a short-term trading service.
Yes, short-term gains are wonderful, but they don’t tell the entire story.
The goal of World Money Analyst is to increase your financial freedom and investment flexibility by opening up liquid, well-regulated global markets so you can defeat home bias in your portfolio and benefit from multiple streams of equity-based investment returns.
The ideas you’ll see through the course of your yearlong subscription will keep you up to date on the latest global trends in real estate, currencies, and bonds, as well as stocks.
At just $179 for a year’s membership (the lowest price you will ever see, as the price is set to increase in just days) joining World Money Analyst today is an important step you can take now that could provide years of lasting benefits. Don’t miss out.
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