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Global Investing Trends: Looking Beyond North America
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Jean-Maurice Ladure
October 21, 2020
The weight of North American companies in global equity markets is at an all-time high, representing over 60% of market capitalization in the MSCI ACWI Index. Meanwhile, companies within MSCI ACWI generated only 30% of global revenues from North America. Given that, global investing may offer opportunities to tap into more of the world’s potential economic growth.
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North America
Europe
Pacific1
Emerging Markets2
Market Capitalization3
Source of Revenues3
GDP Growth4
(Year on Year Avg)
Population5
(Millions)
366M
414M
170M
6649M
1. Represents Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand
2. Based on "Developing and emerging economies" for IMF GDP growth and World Bank Population dataset
3. Based on MSCI Economic Exposure dataset applied to MSCI ACWI Index
4. Source: IMF, Average annual GDP Growth 1999-2019
5. Source: World Bank, as of 2019
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