Are there any regions that aren't doom-laden investments?

InvesterJones

While musing a reply to another thread, I was thinking about regional investments, but it seems like just about every major region has a good reason not to invest currently:

US - very high valuations

Japan - susceptible to china woes, governance, tariff vulnerability?

Europe - geo-political turmoil, tariff vulnerability

UK - unloved old world stocks, exodus of companies

China - governance/economic policy issues, tariff vulnerability

India - extremely high valuations

S Korea - looked great then what on earth just happened politically?!

I'm not sure where else is left that's easy to invest in!

wmb194

Markets climb the wall of worry...

Hoenir

Markets are just the sum of the parts. Taking one, your description of the UK is not one I recognise. Plenty of investable companies. That I've been following for many years. 

PloughmansLunch

Canada looks interesting!
https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/stock-market

Voyager2002

Go East, young man.

Vietnam is the place to go.

Poland offers great value.

Linton

China does not seem very vulnerable to tariffs and sanctions as they have plenty of options to fight back.In any case history seems to show that high tariffs tend to hurt the local customer through inflation at least as much as the intended victim.  So this is as much a US vulnerability.  

But as usual the best option is to diversify everywhere. Dont try to predict the future.

Eyeful

As the late Jack Bogle said " why search for the needle in the haystack, just buy the haystack"!

1. If you get a low cost passive Major Global Index Fund or ETF, you will be doing better than the majority of managers.You now only worry about the amount of profit or loss your investment is making.

2. You could of course just get
(a) Low cost Global Multi Asset Fund with a share/bond split you are comfortable with.
(b) Target Date Fund
Then just get on with life and only look at these investments say every 5 years.  

Albermarle

Probably at any time in the past 100 years ( and longer) you could have made a similar type list, just the detail would have been different,

Hoenir

Albermarle said:

Probably at any time in the past 100 years ( and longer) you could have made a similar type list, just the detail would have been different,

Except trading in global shares hasn't been possible for the past 100 years. 

Eyeful

Hoenir said:

Except trading in global shares hasn't been possible for the past 100 years. 

Yes it was possible in the past 100 years

1. The first UK investment trust was started in1868. Initially they invested in bonds but by 1900 they were also dealing in the international shares market. The tag line for IT's once was " The best kept secret in the city"

These trust where aimed to allow the middle classes to invest like the rich upper classes.

The working class did not get a look in. They did not have bank accounts, stock brokers or the necessary money.

2.Within the past 94 years.
Unit Trusts started in 1931 where aimed at the retail investor & from the start some dealt with international shares .  

mark_cycling00

I don't see much doom.

South America, middle East, Africa, far east -china, some Eastern Europe countries, all have huge potential over the next 10-20 years. 

It's only really west Europe that's low growth and stagflation. 

The future is still being created in the US, growth there could still exceed Europe by quite a lot so long as you're not too high in tech sector.
An active US fund could deal with that risk