The reality is the divest thread is really just political, and political isn't a reasonable investment strategy.

Yes and no. Jurisdiction risk is where the two subjects unavoidably overlap. I don't care about who's running US government one way or another, which is sort of the essence of "politics".

For me, it's about whether a company operates primarily where there is sufficiently reliable rule of law for an investor to be comfortable, and whether the country is allied with enemies of my country and therefore a valid choice for consideration. With the right database, primary jurisdiction could be simple quant filter criteria like RS26. In my case it is, literally.

Different reasonable people will of course arrive at different values for that database, but for me the answers are that the US no longer gets a high enough score on either test to pass. So I no longer own any US-based MI stocks: nothing passes.

Jim

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