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Four Things Everyone Needs to Know About the Markets
One of my favorite annual markets updates comes from The Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton. Every year it provides valuable insights or useful reminders about the importance of a long-term mindset in the financial markets. These reminders are more important than ever in a society that focuses more on the day-to-day or even minute-to-minute when it comes to the markets. Here are four reminders from some of my favorite charts in this year’s update: 1. Stocks beat bonds over the long-term. Dimson, Marsh and Staunton give an update of the real returns by ... (full story)