I came across this interesting financial planning steps in the form of the bingo game: Click to enlarge Source: Charles Schwab

Equities are the best asset class to own for building wealth over the long-term. Stocks tend to yield a positive return when held over many years. However this does not mean they go up year after year consistently. Instead over many decades there will be some years where the market shoots higher and some when …

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The dramatic decline of the S&P 500 last March and the subsequent melt-up is one of the faster recoveries in the history of the index. The benchmark index fell 34% by late March of 2020 only to completely recover all that loss in less than 6 months. Previous drawdowns such as the dot-com bubble crash …

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The top weapons exporting countries in the world are shown in the chart below. The US was the top exporter for the period 2016 to 2020 followed by Russia, France, Germany and China. Click to enlarge Source: RFE/RL Infographics  

Following our theme of reviewing asset class returns over the years and the importance of diversification, the following is another chart showing the annual returns and average returns from 2006 to 2020. Commodities have never been the best performer since 2006. Similarly the best return for emerging equities was all the way back in 2009 …

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