Simply put, worldly investors visit international funds

Courtesy USATODAY.com Money - Waggoner  Thu, 06/12/2008 - 19:38

International investing has become enormously popular, in large part because domestic investing has been so incredibly dreary.

The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index has gained an average 7.6% per year the past three years, vs. 17.1% a year for the MSCI Europe, Australasia and Far East index.


 

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