If your portfolio does not include US stocks, you may be missing out

With Indian stocks under 4% of global market cap, investing abroad unlocks wider wealth and diversifies risks

- Sashind Ningthoukhongjam

While the Indian stock market has grown rapidly, it still represents less than 4% of the global market capitalization. Limiting your investments to this small fraction means you may missing out on the vast majority of the world’s wealth creation.

Investing internationally provides access to innovative companies such as Tesla, Alphabet and Netllix, diversifying your portfolio across geographies, reducing overall volatility and mitigating country-specific risks.

At the 2025 Mint Money Festival, Viram Shah, co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Vested Finance, which helps Indians invest abroad, and Nikhil Behl, co-founder and CEO-Stocks at IndMoney, a personal finance platform, discussed how investors can diversify their portfolios into foreign equities to ride out domestic shocks.

“Investors can get access to innovative companies not just in the US but in other countries as well. Many of these companies also trade at attractive valuations abroad, which may not be the case in domestic markets.”