Emerging equity markets tend to offer higher returns than developed markets during some periods but not all the time. Emerging markets also go thru boom and busts like the developed markets but the magnitude of rise and fall in those markets is much higher than their developed world peers. In the really long run emerging …
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The number of public companies in the US has continued to decline for many years now. One of the implications of this scenario is that investors have fewer options to invest in. To put it another way, billions of dollars flowing into the equity markets have fewer places to find a home. As a result, …
Reinvesting dividends can boost returns especially in the long-term due to the effect of compounding. One of the simplest and easiest ways for investors to earn higher returns is signing up for automatic dividend reinvestment. Unless one needs the cash for some other investment or one lives off of dividend income, reinvesting dividends is a …
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The Dividend Yields offered by Asian firms is higher other equity markets. With a dividend yield higher than 2.5% Asian companies pay the second highest yield after Europe. This rate is also much higher than the dividend yield of American companies. The chart below shows the comparison of Asian dividend yield to other markets: Click …
U.S. stocks outperformed commodities in the past five years. As an asset class, commodities are always more volatile than stocks and are not suitable for most investors. Though there are many commodity derivative products such as ETFs that make investing in commodities easier, investing in commodities is not for everybody. The following chart shows the …
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