Imagine it’s 1998 & you’re handed $100,000 to invest

It’s 1998.  You’re handed $100,000 to invest.  The catch is you can’t invest in individual stocks.  You’ve got to put it all in an index that tracks the performance of one of the following regions:  U.S., Asia, Canada, Latin America, Australia, Japan or Europe. What do you do? If you’d chosen Japan, you’d have made a 7% profit by November 2009.  If you’d chosen Europe, you’d have done more than twice as well – a 20% profit.  And you’d have been much better off putting your money in Canada which would have given you a return of 113%

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Imagine it’s 1998 & you’re handed $100,000 to invest