The Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook 2018 has been published recently. The summary edition of this annual study contains a few fascinating charts. The following chart shows the Relative Sizes of Global Equity Markets end-1899 vs. end-2017: Click to enlarge Source:The Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook 2018 , CS Download: The Credit Suisse Global Investment …

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The Economist magazine has projected the following to be the slowest growing economies in 2018. Among the developed economies, Italy, Japan, Switzerland and the UK are in the list. Click to enlarge Source: The Economist Via Canadian Business Review

The US market has outperformed the British and Japanese equity markets in terms of returns since October, 1987. The returns since that month are shown below: +745% DJIA +658% S&P 500 +214% FTSE 100 -24% Nikkei 225 Chart: Click to enlarge Source: UK Almanc via Twitter

Investing in foreign stocks offer many advantages such as a wide universe of stocks to choose, higher dividend yields in some markets, different earnings growth rates and potential high growth opportunities, etc. The following infographic shows some of the beneits of going overseas: Click to enlarge Source: Global Vision Enhances Equity Insight by Mark Phelps, Scott …

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The chart below shows the annual returns of various asset classes like stocks, bonds, cash, etc. from 2003 thru 1H, 2017: Click to enlarge   Source: Novel Investor