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Shift happens – a potpourri of amazing stats

By Prieur du Plessis, on July 9th, 2007 posted in: Economy, Finance, Investment, Investment lessons, Markets, Money

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The video clip below is a cocktail of mind-boggling statistics. As John Mauldin remarked: “I think that we underestimate the accelerating pace of change we are going to see in the next 15 to 20 years. We will see more change in the coming decade than we saw all of last century. Think back just [...]

Global stock market performance round-up (June 30, 2007)

By Prieur du Plessis, on July 4th, 2007 posted in: Equities, Finance, Investment, Markets, Money, Stocks

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Can money trees in fact grow to heaven? It is certainly beginning to look that way when considering global stock market returns.

World stock markets again delivered good returns in US dollar for the quarter ended 30 June 2007. The best performance came from the Peru Composite Index with an eye-popping capital [...]

Valuation of US equities – back to basics

By Prieur du Plessis, on July 3rd, 2007 posted in: Equities, Finance, Investment, Investment lessons, Markets, Money, Stocks

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The most nagging question for investors in equities is what return they can expect from their investment. For most people it’s as simple as that, unless of course you want to bring risk and some other Greek (quant) variables into the equation.

It is stating the obvious that an investor’s total return [...]

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