1. How would you determine when international diversification becomes superfluous? That is, how would you determine if the added cost of investing internationally is sufficiently rewarded? 2. If most people are rational, why do you think they fail to diversify properly? In particular, why do they fail to include foreign securities in their portfolios? 3. Comment on the following statement: If you have a lot of foreign holdings scattered around the world, foreign exchange risk is not much of a problem because the various translation gains and losses all average out to zero in the long run. 4. To a portfolio manager, why is economic exposure more important than either type of accounting exposure? 5. Do you think that a foreign investor would see any political risk in the United States? If so, in what respect? 6. Foreign exchange risk can be hedged; is there any way to hedge political risk? 7. Is a portfolio manager more concerned with real investment or with financial investment? Why? 8. Investor A holds three securities; Investor B holds twelve. For which investor would the addition of an international mutual fund to the portfolio make the most sense