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Digital technology in all its many forms is now an integral part of our lives. The companies that develop and promote its use have benefited from this trend, as have their share prices and market capitalizations.
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To assess the impact on diversification in these regional indexes, investors can also look at the effective number of countries, which shows how many countries are “effectively” driving risk and performance versus the total number of countries in an index.
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As the composition of an index changes, the index can become more concentrated, with more of the performance and risk driven by an increasingly smaller number of stocks.
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Global benchmarks can understate the economic importance of emerging markets but looking at the evolution of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and its weight in the ACWI, is a testament to the important role EM plays in global asset allocation.
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MSCI Research looked at average pairwise correlation between countries’ USD returns within developed and emerging markets (EM) for the last 20 years.
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Just 15 years ago, corporate revenues from emerging markets (EM) represented around 10% of global revenues.
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Three-quarters of the USD 1.5 trillion in revenue from clean tech for MSCI ACWI constituents came from outside North America.
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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.
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MSCI Research has shown that dividends and earnings growth were principal drivers of equity returns, particularly in the long run.
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Corporate and government spending on research and development (R&D) accounted for about 2% of GDP globally, as of December 2018, with wide variation across individual countries.