Special repayment, saving or consumption?

etf global are 2/3 USA. ran perfectly like whipped cream on the body scale in recent years. always in profit ;)

There are also ETFs in which the weighting of individual countries and companies is limited.

How about Asia or China? Who dares to invest specifically there? If yes, how?

My China and Emerging Markets ETFs are not doing particularly well, but I consider them important as a balance to the MSCI World. My few Australian stocks are doing really well.

Stocks are currently not performing well due to various ongoing crises.

An ETF can represent a 'concentration risk' just like a property.

oh my god. Germany, stock country! Financial education should already be taught in school.

almighty. Germany, stock country! One should already learn finance in school.

There is some truth to it, it can happen that the world market index moves sideways for 10 years.

There is some truth to it, it can happen that the global market index 10Y moves sideways.

As far as I know, that was not even the case during World War II.

That was, to my knowledge, not even the case during World War II.

Of course not, it would be mentioned in every forum about ETFs.. ;) I recommend looking at the period 1929/30/31 up to the early 1950s.