Triumph of the Optimists : : 101 Years of Global Investment Returns /

Triumph of the Optimists : : 101 Years of Global Investment Returns / / Paul Marsh, Mike Staunton, Elroy Dimson.

Investors have too often extrapolated from recent experience. In the 1950s, who but the most rampant optimist would have dreamt that over the next fifty years the real return on equities would be 9% per year? Yet this is what happened in the U.S. stock market. The optimists triumphed. However, as Do...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Dimson, Elroy,
Marsh, Paul,
Staunton, Mike,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2002
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 131 color illus
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • PART ONE: 101 years of global investment returns
  • Chapter 1. Introduction and overview
  • Chapter 2. World markets: today and yesterday
  • Chapter 3. Measuring long-term returns
  • Chapter 4. International capital market history
  • Chapter 5. Inflation, interest rates, and bill returns
  • Chapter 6. Bond returns
  • Chapter 7. Exchange rates and common-currency returns
  • Chapter 8. International investment
  • Chapter 9. Size effects and seasonality in stock returns
  • Chapter 10. Value and growth in stock returns
  • Chapter 11. Equity dividends
  • Chapter 12. The equity risk premium
  • Chapter 13. The prospective risk premium
  • Chapter 14. Implications for investors
  • Chapter 15. Implications for companies
  • Chapter 16. Conclusion
  • PART TWO: Sixteen countries, one world
  • Chapter 17. Our global database
  • Chapter 18. Australia
  • Chapter 19. Belgium
  • Chapter 20. Canada
  • Chapter 21. Denmark
  • Chapter 22. France
  • Chapter 23. Germany
  • Chapter 24. Ireland
  • Chapter 25. Italy
  • Chapter 26. Japan
  • Chapter 27. Netherlands
  • Chapter 28. South Africa
  • Chapter 29. Spain
  • Chapter 30. Sweden
  • Chapter 31. Switzerland
  • Chapter 32. United Kingdom
  • Chapter 33. United States
  • Chapter 34. World
  • References
  • About the Authors
  • Index

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