The historical annual returns of Canada’s benchmark S&P/TSX Composite index from 1924 to 2019 are shown in the pyramid chart below. Canadian stocks yielded a positive return in about 73% of the time. So in the long run, stocks tend to offer positive returns despite crises such as the dot-com crash, financial crisis of 2008-09, etc.
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Source: Russell Investments Canada
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The Institute for Economics and Peace based in Sydney, Australia published the Global Peace Index 2020 report that ranked 163 countries and territories of the world based on their level of peacefulness. All the countries were evaluated and assigned a Global Peace Index (GPI) which was used to rank them. From the report:
The Global Peace Index (GPI) measures more than just the presence or absence of war. It captures the absence of violence or the fear of violence across three domains: Safety and Security, Ongoing Conflict, and Militarisation. Both the Ongoing Conflict and Safety and Security domains recorded deteriorations, with only the Militarisation domain recording an improvement. Of the 23 GPI indicators, eight recorded an improvement, 12 had a deterioration, while the remaining three indicators did not change in the past year.
The most peaceful country in the world is Iceland followed by New Zealand and Portugal. Canada took the sixth spot.
The U.S. was ranked at 121 ahead of Burkina Faso and South Africa. Mexico ranks worse than the US. All the developed European countries were ahead of the U.S. in this ranking.
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Source: The Global Peace Index 2020 – Measuring Peace in a Complex World, IEP
Janus Henderson published the latest edition of Global Dividend Index report yesterday. The report showed global dividends plunged by about a fifth in Q2 this year due to the Coronavirus pandemic. However for the first two tech companies – Microsoft (MSFT)and Apple (AAPL) – appeared in the top 10 global dividend payers list. The Top 20 Global Dividend payers are shown in the chart below:
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Source: Janus Henderson Global Dividend Index Edition 27, August 2020, Janus Henderson
Perennial topper Nestle (NSRGY) is the world’s top dividend payer in 2020 also. Out of the top 20, 8 are from the US.
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