There are a few things in life you can depend on. Unsolicited advice from your parents, for instance. Or being one sock short after washing a load of laundry. You can also rely on Morningstar Director of Personal Finance Christine Benz sharing the long-term stock and bond return forecasts of several highly respected investment firms—including BlackRock, J.P. Morgan, Morningstar Investment Management, Research Affiliates, Schwab, and Vanguard—each January.
What are the pros expecting from the markets in the next several years? All the firms surveyed expect non-US stocks to outperform US stocks. And two of the asset managers expect bonds to outperform US stocks, too.
For those investors who’d like to increase their exposure to non-US stocks, here are Morningstar’s best international stocks and ETFs to buy.
This post originally appeared at Morningstar.