Investing in dividend stocks is a wise strategy for many reasons including the fact that dividends alone account for one-third of the S&P 500’s Total Return from 1960 to 2019. So though the dividend yield is small for most US stocks relative to other developed markets they are still important from a long-term wealth building …
Baillie Gifford, the Scottish investment manager has sold half of its take in electric car market Tesla(TSLA), according to an article at CityWire, UK. BG was the largest institutional investor in Tesla with holdings of about 40 million shares or about 8% of the company at one time last year. It is not surprising that …
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The Top 10 Emerging Markets Equity Returns based on MSCI from 2001 to 2020 are shown in the chart below. South Korea was the top performer due to the boom in tech stocks last year. Samsung for example is the largest constituent in the country’s benchmark KOSPI Index. South Korean chip and electronic firms also …
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The Top 50 Most Valuable Brands in Latin America for 2020 is shown in the graphic below. The most valuable brand in the continent is Brazilian banking group Bradesco(BBD). Corona beer is the top brand in Mexico. In Peru, BCP bank (BAP) is among the top 3 brands. Similarly in Colombia, Bancolombia(CIB) is also a …
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The following graphic shows the rating of countries based on the latest Democracy Index by The Economist Intelligence Unit. Most of Africa are authoritarian regimes. Same for most of the Middle East, Russia and China. Some of the major countries are classified as flawed democracies. These include Brazil, India, Italy, France and the US. North …
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