The chart below shows the Dividend Yield and Dividend Payout Ratio of the S&P 500 index 1926 to 2000: Click to enlarge The Dividend Yield dropped from 5.15% at the beginning of 1926 to just 1.10% at the end of 2000. The Dividend Payout Ratio was at 46.68% the beginning of 1926 but decreased to …
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The chart below shows the Periodic Table of Investment Returns for individual countries in the emerging world from 2001 to 2010. The returns are based on the MSCI and S&P data: Click to enlarge Source: iShares Some observations: The frontier market of Peru was the best performing market in terms of 10-year annualized returns beating …
The chart below shows the Periodic Table of Investment Returns for individual countries in the developed world from 2001 to 2010. The returns are based on the MSCI and Standard & Poor’s data. Click to enlarge Source: iShares A few interesting observations: Australia was one of the best performing markets for the period shown with …
The Callan Periodic Table of Investment Returns for 2011 is shown below: Click to enlarge Source: Callan Associates Some interesting observations noted by Callan include: The U.S. markets generated a tiny 2.11% return which is better than the double digit losses for the overseas developed and emerging markets. For only the third …
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The following chart shows the returns of various asset classes from 2001 to 2010: Click to enlarge The 10-year annualized return for foreign stocks was 3.94%. However they returned over 32% in 2009 and 8% in 2010. While foreign stocks fell over 43% during the credit crisis in 2008, they yielded double digit returns every …
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