Does your investment portfolio have funds abroad? Those of us that are still strong enough to stomach this recession, hooray for you. It was only a couple of days ago that I was reading an updated post at an investment advice website and it lists the five global stock markets that have been the best return for investors on their funds in the last year. As you might think none of the countries discussed are countries that would be at the top of my list and if you did then your money probably did pretty good for you.

So what countries made the list according to the post? They were Tunisia, South Africa, Chile, Columbia and Venezuela. Of the five countries that were listed, the country of Venezuela was the only market to give back a return on the positive side and they were the only country to do that in the past year. Don’t bother getting upset if you were not looking to diversify your money with investments abroad. Pretty much every global market failed to give you a positive return except for Venezuela. To bad for investors there is that constant threat of a dictatorship and nationalization of the country. Not exactly a country that is enticing to foreign investors.

The point of the post as far as what I got out of it was to demonstrate to investors that there is still a lot of investing to be made by investing over seas. Just by doing a bit more investigating than you were required to do before as the better returning investments are still out there. Thanks to the awful state of the global markets.

Considering the past year what effect do you think this past year has had on the small time investor? How do you think people have taken their investments out of stock markets altogether or do you think most people have fought to keep their wits about them and kept pushing their investments to be smarted and more flexible financially than ever before? It will be fun to see when the financial craziness settles from all this economical recession to see how investors will change their investment strategies? Do you think investments over seas will recover better than ever or will investors keep away so much that it may be a long while before we see the money being invested overseas that investors had been doing in the last few years leading up to this economic downturn.