I came across the below interesting chart showing how long it takes to double your money based on rate of return. At 5% it takes just over 14 years to double your money. The S&P 500 has returned an average annual return of 11.5% since 1928 to thru last year. However since it is an …
Investing in an IPO is never a smart idea for retail investors. Way too many IPOs never seem to live up to the hype. Most of them end up losers for investors with some crashing big even within a few weeks or months of going public. The latest example of one such IPO is the …
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The S&P 500 is up by a 13.51% year-to-date. Though it has come down a bit from the peak in summer it is still a decent return. However a substantial portion of the returns have come from the top 7 stocks in the next dubbed as the ‘Magnificent Seven’. These are Apple(AAPL), Amazon(AMZN), Microsoft(MSFT), Alphabet …
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The Morningstar Andex chart for the US equity market is one powerful one-page that packs a ton of information for investors. The chart shows the growth of $1 from 1926 to 2022 in various asset classes. It also other useful information such as economic expansions and contractions, S&P P/E, inflation and interest rates, geo-political events, …
The top five best and worst performing and emerging equity markets from 2003 to 2022 are shown in the chart below. In 2022, Turkey was the best performer as the country recovered from economic and currency crisis. Chile came in at second followed by Brazil. From 2003, we can observer at least one country from …
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