One of the ways of diversification is to allocate one’s portfolio assets across countries. Since the economic systems, political systems and wealth of natural resources vary between countries the equity markets also tend to perform differently. For exmaple, when crude oil prices are soarding the Russian equity market performs well as the economy is dependent …
The retirement ages for men and women vary widely across countries. In this post let us take a look at the ages differences between countries. But before we get to that, here is a brief introduction on retirement. Germany was the first country in the world to implement an old age social insurance program back …
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One of the simple and easy ways to reduce risks with investing in equity markets is to diversify one’s assets across various asset types, countries, regions, etc. The following chart shows the unpredictability of market returns one year after another: Click to enlarge Source: AGF Management Limited
We have seen many charts earlier showing index returns of emerging markets, individual countries, developed markets, etc. Most of the charts showed the returns individually. I came across the following chart that compares the returns of emerging market index returns against developed markets: Click to enlarge Source: Mirae Asset Management
For US investors only: Below is a neat flowchart showing how to do backdoor Roth IRA contributions for 2017: Click to enlarge Source: Ohanesian/Lecours Investment and Advisory Services