Savvy investors know that an investment portfolio's most exciting and lucrative opportunities are to be found globally and extend outside the borders of the United States. To exploit the globally important markets requires access to the sophisticated information on world capital markets that top investment professionals use. Global Investing, written by two of America's most knowledgeable and experienced investment professionals, provides a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute resource that's based on award-winning research. Global Investing provides institutional facts and tracks performance data for stock markets in more than 40 countries. Beyond that, it provides both worldwide return performance on all major asset classes - data unlikely to be found in any other single resource. In addition, Ibbotson and Brinson analyze the relationship of these returns to risk, marketability, taxation, and information costs. With Global Investing you'll learn how to improve your investment decision making by having timely information on population, production, inflation, wealth measures, and capital market structure in both developed and emerging economies; using empirically tested investment analysis to build and maintain a diversified portfolio using tools that gain insights from historical performance data; knowing how to look for the best opportunities in stocks, bonds, real estate, gold, silver, art, commodities, and venture capital; applying techniques and strategies of asset allocation across countries and economic sectors; and having a resource that provides an in-depth analysis of currencies, exchange rates, asset pricing ... and much more! Global investing's dozens of charts and graphs makeboth current market data and that of past decades unusually clear and accessible. The result is a book that provides all the tools you'll need to benefit from the international investment opportunities of the '90s and beyond.

Provides data and analysis on US and international investment opportunities. Covers more than 40 countries, listing return data on all major asset categories and relating these returns to factors such as risk, marketability, taxation, and information costs. Numerous graphs, charts, and tables permit a quick comparison of investment choices. Information is also included on capital market wealth, inflation rates, asset allocation, venture capital, currencies and exchange rates, derivative securities, and future trends.
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The World: Population, Economic Activity, and Capital Markets.Money, Inflation, and Exchange Rates.Capital Market Returns in Equilibrium.Asset Allocation.Portfolio Construction.Stock Markets Around the World.Historical Returns on World Equities.Equity Returns Over the Very Long Run.Analyzing the World Equity Market: The Search for Higher Returns.Bond Markets Around the World.The World Bond Market: Returns and Market Values.Inflation Around the World.Real Estate.Venture Capital.Gold, Silver, Commodities, and Tangible Assets.What the Future Holds.