Higher economic growth does not necessarily lead to better well being of a country’s citizens. Among the G-7 member countries the US has the highest GDP per capita but the lowest life expectancy according to an article by Prof.John Ross, Senior Fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. The fact that …
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I came across the following table showing the sector weightings in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and select developed market indices: Click to enlarge Note: The data shown above are as of Dec, 2016. So the weightings may have changed since then. Some of the high-level observations from the above are: Canada’s TSX …
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