The S&P 500 is up by 19.59% year-to-date based on price only. However based on total return which includes dividend reinvestment the return is 21.36% so far this year. In the past few years the dividend yield on the index is around 2%. Though the yield is small, the difference between the price return and …
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UNCTAD recently released its annual The World Investment Report for 2019. The report contains many fascinating facts about global investments such as fund flows, foreign direct investment in countries, top global companies, etc. The World’s Top 100 Multi-National Enterprises based on Foreign Assets in 2018 list is interesting to investors especially to those that are looking to …
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In an earlier post I discussed how the enemy of investors are themselves. Following that same topic, the following infographic shows 9 investor behaviors that are detrimental to their decision making skills and ultimately leads to poor investment returns. Click to enlarge Source: Unknown “Narrow Framing” is one of the bad behaviors that some investors …
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The global oil industry got a wakeup call with the huge attack on two Saudi oil facilities on Saturday. Oil prices are soaring Sunday night as a result of this attack. Experts in the media are using words such as “game changer”, “crippling”, “big deal”, “big one” etc. to describe the attack. The use of …
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Callan is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the publication of the widely popular Annual Periodic Table of Global Equity Investment Returns. The firm has published another great set of periodic tables as part of the celebration thru its Callan Institute. The following is the Periodic Table of Global Equity Investment Returns from 1999 thru 2018. …
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