Hi, since there is no community dedicated for investing from EU out there I will ask here!

How do you approach investing for retirement?

All the US-boycotting movements suggests avoiding ETFs with US exposure but it also limits opportunities. From other hand we don’t like major corporations here on fediverse so I shouldn’t hope and profit from their growth. I guess euro stocks are more aligned with buy from EU movement and small cap stocks ETF may be more ethical choice. But I’m still not ready to do that move, as I have most of my savings in EUNL (Core MSCI World). I also have some exposure to gold and Apple specifically.

Or do you simply not pay attention to investing in stocks and more to investing in community/friends/skills?

I would love to read some your takes 😊

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[–] Szewek@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

I do invest in stocks. I had to restarted last year, since I could no longer bare the heritage of my stupid past self having an account on eToro. So it was easy to make the move to non-US and mainly European (or EU-allied) options.

I live in Sweden now, and the trading app Avanza has a lot of diverse fonds with European focus. They have nice breakdowns of funds into companies, countries, percent of investment that goes to "questionable" industries and to sustainable development goals-related industries/practices, sustainability scores, etc. They also show statistics. and US-focused funds have not been close to the best performing ones in recent years (Eastern EU, Iberia, gold/silver). Maybe you can find something similar?