The current bull market started from the trough of the Global Financial Crisis(GFC) in early 2009. Despite being called a bull market it does not feel like a typical bull market. In fact, experts have dubbed this bull as the “most hated bull market in history”. The chart below compares the returns of the current …
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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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