Best Region for Investments

Hitting

In the in these uncertain times, where would be the best region to invest?
uk/usa/europe/global/japan/emerg.mkts./Asia?
Any suggestions for % splits...........medium risk/balanced view?

Linton

The future is always uncertain.  In my view you should be investing in all regions.  The only question is at what %s.  A reasonable default is one adopted by a global index.  You may then have a good reason to change it somewhat. 

Thrugelmir

All regions.  There's a myriad of different risks to be considered. Corporate governance , for example,  is far from being uniform.

Prism

I invest in sectors mainly not regions using mostly global funds

max...

All regions with a bias to the US.  

dunstonh

Hitting said:

In the in these uncertain times, where would be the best region to invest?
uk/usa/europe/global/japan/emerg.mkts./Asia?
Any suggestions for % splits...........medium risk/balanced view?

Your question has so many flaws that indicates a complete lack of understanding about investing.
You cannot know in advance which region/sector is going to be best.   And none of the regions you mention would be classed as medium or balanced risk.  And investing too heavy in any one of those or in isolation would increase the risk further.

Hitting

Thanks Max,...interesting you have 25% India and China and avoid Europe!
I was thinking 20%Gilts/Corp.Bonds;15%uk;15%us;15%euro;15%global;10%japan;10%emerg.mkts.

Looking at some risk with caution,if that makes sense......% I’m not sure about!

max...

Hitting said:

Thanks Max,...interesting you have 25% India and China and avoid Europe!
I was thinking 20%Gilts/Corp.Bonds;15%uk;15%us;15%euro;15%global;10%japan;10%emerg.mkts.

Looking at some risk with caution,if that makes sense......% I’m not sure about!

I’m not sure what dunstone means by his answer but I’m not a financial advisor.  

Where do you think the future stable growth comes from?  For me mainly the US for the foreseeable future

And the greatest potential for the future?  Europe......??   or India, China and others?

Spread it round and be prepared to stay in for 20 years if possible. 

AnotherJoe

Hitting said:

In the in these uncertain times, where would be the best region to invest?
uk/usa/europe/global/japan/emerg.mkts./Asia?
Any suggestions for % splits...........medium risk/balanced view?

IMO the best region would be a sector.

eg forget America, or Asia or whatever, invest in a sector. Business is global now, investing geographically makes less and less sense. 

Moe_The_Bartender

AnotherJoe said:

Hitting said:

In the in these uncertain times, where would be the best region to invest?
uk/usa/europe/global/japan/emerg.mkts./Asia?
Any suggestions for % splits...........medium risk/balanced view?

IMO the best region would be a sector.

eg forget America, or Asia or whatever, invest in a sector. Business is global now, investing geographically makes less and less sense. 

I tend to agree with that although I’m not sure that investing geographically ever made a lot of sense. Buy the FTSE100 and you get a load of businesses whose UK earnings are less than 20% in the UK Buy Nestlé which is listed on the Swiss stock exchange but only earns 3% of its revenues in Switzerland. Global is the only geography that works.

I wouldn’t go all in on sectors but I do like the idea. If you like clean energy but don’t know where to start, go for INRG or VT Gravis Clean Energy. Same with cloud computing, esports and gaming, tech etc (although there is some disagreement about what constitutes tech).

csgohan4

I invested in a cheap global index tracker as my main investment, then moved onto sectors by adding to the portfolio to make it more diverse as I got more experienced. Trying to time the market, you will end up not investing at all