Investing in emerging equities is more risky than investing in equities of the developed world for a variety of reasons. As the name itself implies, emerging markets are markets that are still in the development stage. Hence unlike the developed countries, they may lack many of the characteristics required for a stable and well functioning …
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Schroders, a UK-based Asset Manager, is bullish on European stocks for 2016. In the Outlook 2016: European Equities report published on November 24th, Rory Bateman, Head of UK & European Equities noted: At the time of writing, the MSCI Europe equity index has delivered a total return of around 10% this year and we believe investors should see …
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Emerging market equities should be part of a well diversified portfolio. As an asset class, emerging stocks generally tend to more volatile than developed equities. Despite the volatility investors should allocate some portion of their portfolio’s assets to emerging markets. One of the reasons for holding stocks from the developing world is that economic growth in …
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The Dividend Yields of select equity markets at the end of October,2015 are shown in the chart below: Click to enlarge Data Source: Star Capital Note: Data shown is known to be accurate from sources used.The Dividend Yields shown are based on trailing 12 month values. The U.S. dividend yield has stayed at around 2% for …
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The S&P 500 is up by 2.11% year-to-date. Compared to this low return, many European indices have double digit returns so far this year.For example, the STOXX 600 is up by 11% and the CAC 40 has increased by nearly 16%. However over the past few years US equities have greatly outperformed European and other …
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