Kabe

There are many ETFs that offer broad diversification into international markets. Most US brokerages offer their own mutual funds for international equities as well.

There is much disagreement over the optimum ratio of US-to-international equities, but unless you’re a hardcore US exceptionalist, anywhere between 20-40% of your equity portfolio should be ex-US, according to most researchers.

Maybe they’ve updated their security policies? Could be to prevent users from installing unapproved software via winget, etc.

I have definitely never done that myself, if anyone asks …

That’s definitely an issue with your IT department. My work Windows laptop came with the terminal accessible.