In earlier posts we looked at the annual return charts for S&P 500 sectors, emerging markets and asset classes. Let’s wrap up the review with the final chart from Novel Investor for developed markets excluding the US. In 2023, Italy was the best performer followed by Spain and Denmark based on MSCI total returns for …
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Callan has released the latest edition of The Periodic Table of Investment Returns chart. The 2023 chart shows the annual returns of key indices from 2004 to 2023 in order of performance for each year. Last year US large caps as denoted by the S&P 500 was the top performer with a return of over …
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I recently came across an fascinating infographic showing the requirements for a Russian Cosmonaut. In addition to the physical requirements the education and applied skills are tough. It would be interesting to compare this with NASA’s requirements for an astronaut. Click to enlarge Source: Sputnik
We looked at the emerging markets returns and S&P 500 sector returns chart for 2023 in two posts earlier. In the post below let’s take a quick look at the asset class returns chart from 2009 to 2023 that was also published by Novel Investor. As expected, large caps were the winners in 2023 followed …
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Migration within states in the US increased during the Covid-19 pandemic era when people in big cities moved out to smaller cities and rural areas. The popularity of remote work after the pandemic also is a driving factor for population migration. A recent report by the Tax Foundation noted that more people migrated from high-tax …
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