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Buy a broad international fund and you get the world. The good, the bad, and the indebted. The MSCI EAFE index that anchors most overseas allocations is essentially a market-cap-weighted bucket of every large developed-market stock outside North America, which means you are also buying European banks with thin returns on equity, Japanese conglomerates carrying ... Want Overseas Exposure Without Buying The Junk? This Fund Has A Filter

US stocks entered 2026 on the back foot, with the S&P 500 down 1.4% year-to-date through early March. Over that same stretch, developed international equities moved in the other direction. For retirees managing sequence-of-returns risk, that divergence is exactly why geographic diversification exists. What EFA Is Actually Built to Do iShares MSCI EAFE ETF (NYSEARCA:EFA) ... Forget US Dominance for Now: EFA Outperforms SPY With 2.34% Gain While S&P Slips