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Swedes are selling off their American funds and shares and are buying European/Swedish instead (blogg.avanza.se)
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Avanza is one of the largest banks in Sweden, and in their monthly blogg, they're noticing a big movement where Swedes are selling their American funds and shares, to buy Swedish/European instead.

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[โ€“] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 16 hours ago

A year ago I moved my pension from a combination index fund consisting of mostly US company ran index funds to a different combination index fund that consists of mostly European ran index funds (and had a slightly less American stocks in it). Complex pension system, most index pension funds ran by our banks here consist of 5-6 different index ETFs. It's a special category of fund that you invest into automatically each month from your taxes, and the government also contributes too. This is deducted from your taxable income and you pay reduced income tax on it when you retire (or maybe it was no income tax, I forgot)

Now I moved out of the bank-composed index fund altogether and in the month of May (IIRC), it'll be in a selection of ETFs I selected to specifically have no US stocks. As for fund managers, I have a tiny bit in one iShares fund and one WisdomTree one because they were a bit unique (the WisdomTree one is Europe defense industry), but the rest is all Amundi, which is French.

If Trump truly fucks up the US economy and the US dollar, my retirement fund should be fairly safe after this move is complete. Unless Europe and Asia also crash and burn. But I have a few decades left to build more value anyway, I'm 30 and won't be able to retire until at least 65 (the retirement age was set to rise gradually so the later you were born, the older you'll have to be to retire, yaaaay)