Paris-based Natixis Global Asset Management recently published its 2016 Natixis Global Retirement Index report. This report contains the rankings for Global Retirement Index(GRI) based a study of 43 countries including the BRICS. The Top 25 countries based on the GRI are shown below: Click to enlarge Source: 2016 Natixis Global Retirement Index, Natixis Of the top 25 …
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Stocks that fall to depressed levels may take years to recover.Sometimes such companies may end up going bankrupt and equity becomes worthless. Though stocks may be depressed they may continue to trade and simply frustrate investors for years. Depressed levels can be considered as big declines of 50% or more. The example below shows the …
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Fortune magazine recently published its famous Fortune Global 500 list. The top 10 companies from the ranking for 2016 are shown in the table below: Source: Fortune US retailer Walmart(WMT) is the world’s largest firm with a revenue of over $482 billion. The second spot went to Chinese utility State Grid. The importance of oil …
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The U.S. easily beats other countries in defense spending. In fact, its defense expenditures accounted for 37% of the world’s military budgets in 2015. Last year the total US spending on defense reached $596 billion. This figure is more than the defense spending by the next seven countries combined according to Peterson Foundation. Click to enlarge …