Does your investment portfolio have funds abroad?

 Just the other day I was reading an updated article at an investment advice website and it talks about the five global markets abroad that have done the best at giving investors a positive return on their money over the past year. As you may have suspected none of the countries discussed would have been a thought for me to invest in and if you did then your investments most likely did pretty well for you and better than most people.So what countries did the best according to the post? The places listed in the article were Chile, Columbia, Venezuela, Tunisia and South africa. Of the five countries, Venezuela was the only investment market to give back a positive return and that was supposedly the only country to do that in the past year. So do not feel to upset if you were not looking to spread your money out to investments in global markets. Almost all global markets failed to give you a positive return except for Venezuela. Unfortunately for investors there is that constant threat of nationalization of his country. Not really a place that is a winner in terms of wanting to invest your money in.I suppose the purpose of the post as far as what I got out of it was to show people that are still willing to invest their money that there is plenty of money to be made by investing in the global market. Other than having to do a bit more digging than you may have done in the past because the good investments over seas are still out there. Thanks to the state of the global market both abroad and at home.Discovering the option on your investments over seas may not be as simple as it was before but that shouldn't mean that you should stop your over seas investing. Investing over seas is more vital to the survival of your investments success than in the past. The diversification of your money is important to make sure your investments will continue it's growth for the future. For most of us the very concept of investing even a little bit of your money in stocks here or over seas may seem like a big gamble that you would not want to take right now. Would you say that there are very few people that have not been pushed to our financial limits in the last year as we have all have watched the stock markets around the world come crashing down the stock market mountain.Don't know about you and the situation with your money but I know a good number of the people that have lost quite a lot of money in the last year. The majority of those people have worked to to keep what investment funds they had left and have not given up on investing their money. Each and every one of them have been able to keep their money as diverse as before or have done the research to spread their money out more to protect their money from more losses on their investment plans.Considering the past year what effect do you think this past year has had on the millions of individual investors? I suppose the majority of would have moved their money out of stock markets or do you think that the majority of stock investors have managed to keep their wits about them and kept pushing their investments to be stronger than before? It should be educational to see when the craziness from all this recession stress to see the new investment strategies that people will take? Will funding investments abroad be better than ever or will people be "safer" with their investments so that it may be a long time before we see the amount of money for investments abroad that we've seen happening in the last few years leading up to this economic downturn.