Bond diversification

Manesova83

short_butt_sweet wrote: »

what stock market(s) does your broker give you access to? i think you said you're currently not in the UK?

is sterling still your "home currency" for investment purposes? i.e. are you likely to come back before drawing on investments? this may affect whether you want bonds hedged to sterling, or to something else, or an unhedged mixture of global currencies.

All the major European ones. That's right, I'm currently abroad but still in the EU. I have no idea what the future holds, but I wouldn't rule out returning to the UK at some point. I'll be abroad for the foreseeable though.

short_butt_sweet

so your home currency could be either GBP or EUR (if you're in a eurozone country)?

do you have access to iShares Global Corp Bond ETF? that covers investment-grade corporate bonds globally in a single ETF. (but no government bonds, or index-linked bonds, or high-yield corporate bonds.)

the usual suggestion for UK investors would be the GBP-hedged version of that ETF (CRHG on london stock exchange). there are also unhedged versions (or USD-hedged, but that may be less relevant). if you go for unhedged, more than half of it is in USD.