Dividend stocks can generate higher returns from an equity investment compared to non-dividend stocks. The total return from dividend stocks can get a significant boost from dividend reinvestment especially over the long-term. The following chart shows the difference in returns between total returns and only price returns using the MSCI All Country World Index: Click to enlarge …
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Jack Bogle, the founder and former CEO of The Vanguard Group gave an interview to Bloomberg’s Carla Fried earlier this month. His views on investing in markets outside of the U.S. is wrong for many reasons. I will discuss two such reasons below. From the interview: You’ve often reminded investors that what’s done well in the past probably won’t do …
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The S&P 500 and Dow Jones closed at all-time records of 2,078 and 17,959 respectively yesterday.However this is the fifth recovery this year for the S&P 500 according to an article in Bloomberg. From the article: Today’s gains in the S&P 500 completed the fifth recovery this year from a decline of 4 percent or more, just …
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The ING Erasmus Top 100 was published by the Rotterdam School of Management in Dec, 2013. The list comprised of the top 100 non-financial firms ranked by foreign assets. The top 20 firms from the ranking is shown in the table below: Source: ING Erasmus 100,Rotterdam School of Management, ING Economics Department, December 2013 The U.S. had the most number …
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Some of the multinational firms derive a very high percentage of sales relative to total sales from countries outside of their home countries.Ten such firms from the ING Erasmus 100 Top International Firms published in Dec 2013 are listed below: Source: ING Erasmus 100,Rotterdam School of Management, ING Economics Department, December 2013 Pharmaceutical companies dominate the list with Swiss-based Roche …
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