A tale of two decades for U.S. and non-U.S. equity
The past 10 years have seen U.S. equity strongly outperform its international peers, largely because investors expected the U.S. economy to grow faster and it did. Using a sum-of-parts framework to look at the drivers of that outperformance—valuation expansion, earnings growth, dollar appreciation—Vanguard research finds that continued long-term outperformance of U.S. equities is unlikely. We expect that investors who maintain globally diversified equity allocations will be rewarded in the years ahead. Read more in A Tale of Two Decades: Past Is Not Prologue.
Notes:
- All investing is subject to risk, including the possible loss of the money you invest.
- Diversification does not ensure a profit or protect against a loss.
- Investments in stocks or bonds issued by non-U.S. companies are subject to risks including country/regional risk and currency risk.
