Perspective
Is the time up for US equities leadership?
Perspective
Is the time up for US equities leadership?
Since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), the US equity market has
outpaced the rest of the world by some distance. For example, over
the past decade, US equities, as measured by the MSCI USA Index,
achieved an annualized return of 13%. In contrast, international
equities, as measured by the MSCI All-Country World ex US $ Index,
achieved an annualized return of only 6%. Even in the wake of the
Covid-19 outbreak, this trend has remained intact, leading some
investors to question whether they should even bother owning any
non-US equities at all.
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