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For those of us fascinated by taking a long-term view of markets and enjoy crunching numbers, this report has a lot of great info:https://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/?fileID=AE924F44-E396-A4E5-11E63B09CFE37CCB In some cases return numbers in the report go back to the year 1900. I'm not sure if anyone posted it before as it is a few months old, so I apologize if it is redundant.
Don't know what use to make of it, but you're right that it looks like a fun read. A very brief skim turned up the fact that the US and France are the most diversified nations (by sectors), and that the Vice Fund did very nicely. I'm wondering what Morocco's sole industry is (phosphates?)
To me among the many interesting interesting details in the report is looking at some of the markets that failed like Russia and Venezuela and some that pretty much failed like Germany and Japan because of the war. Sometimes stock markets can disappear entirely if there is political unrest or war. Also, who knew Australia and South Africa have been such good places to invest? Or that Italy has consistently been such a terrible one? Also, how the industry weights to the U.S. market have changed over time is interesting. I think the mantra in the long-run stocks go up only really has applied to the U.S. and that's because we've been the predominant superpower during the period when most stock research has been conducted. The idea that a stock market or even a nation itself can completely disappear is utterly foreign to us.
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Don't know what use to make of it, but you're right that it looks like a fun read. A very brief skim turned up the fact that the US and France are the most diversified nations (by sectors), and that the Vice Fund did very nicely. I'm wondering what Morocco's sole industry is (phosphates?)