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title: "March 2015 Portfolio Notes"
url: https://accuvestblog.com/2015/03/11/march-2015-portfolio-notes/
description: "February Comments The MSCI ACWI was up 5.57% in February, moving the global markets back into the green for the year. Russia led the way up 22.82% while Turkey was down."
published: 2015-03-11
updated: 2015-03-11
---

# March 2015 Portfolio Notes

Published 2015-03-11

March 11, 2015 · by [David A](https://accuvestblog.com/author/accuvestblog/) · Filed under [Portfolio Notes](https://accuvestblog.com/category/portfolio-notes/)

Issue attachment (not archived)View the full March 2015 Portfolio Notes here.country-portfolio-notes-march-20151.pdf

### February Comments

- The MSCI ACWI was up 5.57% in February, moving the global markets back into the green for the year. Russia led the way up 22.82% while Turkey was down 9.11%
- Europe has been the best performing region on the year up 10.22% in LCL. Dollar strength has been a headwind, as Europe is only up 6.27% in USD.
- Emerging Markets are positive, but trailing developed markets for the year. They have trailed developed markets by 38.24% over the last three years.

### March Rankings

- Japan and Israel surged up the rankings. Japan showed solid improvements in their risk ranking, while Israel improved in both fundamentals and risk.
- The March country rankings show a decisive bias towards developed markets. China, Indonesia, and Taiwan are the lone emerging countries in the top 10.

Tagged with [developed markets](https://accuvestblog.com/tag/developed-markets/)