The randomness of global stock returns

Tahni Davison is a Financial Adviser with Gilkison Group.

While our daily news provides plenty of updates on what is happening in our local Australian share market and the big global markets of the US and UK, it can be easy to forget about the various other markets we have exposure to through Dimensional.

For example, the Dimensional World Equity trust has exposure to over 8,000 stocks around the world. They have analysed 20 years of annual returns in 22 of those developed markets and presented it in a powerful table, showing us that there is no clear pattern, and no single market provides the best return year on year.

This further enforces the Gilkison philosophy that a diversified investment approach can help reduce the volatility you experience and improve the outcomes of your investments over time.

View the table here.