| > Note that almost every exchange outside the US has been flat or negative for decades. And the US itself was flat for over a decade, with the only thing saving a domestic investor's returns being bonds: * https://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2010/12/17/the-lost-de... And as a Canadian, there are different sectors that would have given me positive gains over the years (I generally own mostly VEQT, a globally-diversified ETF): * https://stingyinvestor.com/SC/PeriodicTableofAnnualReturns.p... And it's perhaps looking more closely at what specifically about the US has been positive: > Looking at this data, there are two distinct periods of extended U.S. outperformance—the late 1990s and today. And what do these two periods have in common? The rise of U.S. technology stocks. Bespoke Investment Group recently created this chart illustrating this phenomenon: > Now that the U.S. technology sector makes up over 30% of the S&P 500 (as it did back in 2000), this begs the question: Is U.S. outperformance just a technological fad? * https://ofdollarsanddata.com/do-you-need-to-own-internationa... Outside of tech, how much better is the general US market than any other market? |