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Are You Questioning Your Foreign Stock Funds?

Why these funds are struggling and what to do about it.

Daniel Sotiroff, Christine Benz

Jul 2, 2020

Editor’s note: Read the latest on how the coronavirus is rattling the markets and what investors can do to navigate it.

Christine Benz: Hi. I'm Christine Benz from Morningstar. The year 2020 has been a volatile one so far for investors, and that includes investors in foreign stock funds. Joining me to provide a recap of the first half for foreign stock fund investors is Dan Sotiroff. He's a passive strategies research analyst for Morningstar. Dan, thank you so much for being here.

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