January Country Rankings
January 6, 2017 · by Dustin Blodgett · Filed under Portfolio Notes
Our latest Country Rankings are out. See below for some general comments and click the link to see more details.
- Global equities finished strong in December, with the MSCI ACWI up 2.16%. The ACWI finished the year up 7.86%, with the average country up 6.63% in 2016. The range of returns for the year, between countries, was 91.10%.
- China fell from the #1 rank to now ranked #5. During December, China was down -4.09%, joining Hong Kong (-6.39%) as the two worst performing countries.
- During 2016, Europe was the only region to return negative performance, -0.40%. However, it was the best performing region in December, up 5.24%.