You might also want to spread out to foreign markets and invest in global mutual funds. (teenanalyst.com)
In total, they will be holding about 15 individual stocks, with a 10 % holding in a low - cost global mutual fund rounding out their equity holdings, and a 10 % holding in a corporate bond filling out their fixed income allocation. (moneysense.ca)
The MoneySense Global Couch Potato portfolio (see «Indexing the world» to the right) has outperformed most global mutual funds for years. (moneysense.ca)