Healthcare spending varies across OECD countries. The average OECD country spends about 10% of its GDP on healthcare. However the US is an outlier and spends more than 17% of its GDP on healthcare. The following chart shows healthcare spending per capita in OECD countries in US dollars. This chart does not show the figures …
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The combined market caps of the six tech giants – Facebook(FB), Aaple(AAPL), Netflix(NFLX), Microsoft(MSFT), Amazon(AMZN) and Alphabet(GOOG) – are bigger than the equity market caps of many countries. In fact, according to a chart published by RAFI Indices last month, only two countries have market caps that are higher than that of the FANMAG’s market …
Investing for the long-term is the best investment strategy as the stock market traditionally goes higher over the long-term but tends to be volatile in the short-term. Over the many decades from 1926 thru 2020, S&P 500 has had many bull markets than bear markets. In fact, many bull markets were longer than bear markets. …
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One of the smart ways to diversify globally is to invest in multiple countries. With this approach it is possible to capture the top returns from one equity market and reduce the impact from a poor or worse returns from another market. Just like the return of various individual companies, the equity returns of individual …
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The following chart shows the importance of diversification. There is no repeatable pattern from year over year. For instance, emerging market stocks were the best performers in 2017 with a return of over 37%. But the following year they were the worst performers with a negative return of over 14%. Click to enlarge Source: Russell …