STI -3%, S&P 500 60%, KLSE 40%?

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January 28, 2017

Stock markets’ returns?

A friend sent me a Chinese New Year greeting with a message asking me if I could look at the returns of the stock markets over the last 10 years.

After reading the above – I read “STI gives punters something to crow about” (Straits Times, Jan 28).

It states that “Local shares ended the Year of the Monkey on a positive note, partly due to Wall Street holding above the 20,000 mark overnight.

The Straits Times Index closed up 0.43 per cent or 13.07 points to 3,064.85 in half-day trading ahead of the Chinese New Year holiday and ended the week up by an impressive 1.79 per cent.”

10 years’ stock market returns (estimated by computing data from googling)?

So, here’s what I have been able to find and compute – returns (estimated) of the following selected stock markets over the last 10 years or so:-

STI (Singapore)           -3%

S&P 500 (USA)            60%

KLSE (Malaysia)          40%

FTSE 100 (U.K.)           15%

HKSE (Hong Kong)     15%

Nikkei 225 (Japan)      12%

Singapore Stock Market (STI)

Leong Sze Hian

 

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Leong
Leong Sze Hian has served as the president of 4 professional bodies, honorary consul of 2 countries, an alumnus of Harvard University, authored 4 books, quoted over 1500 times in the media , has been a radio talkshow host, a newspaper daily columnist, Wharton Fellow, SEACeM Fellow, columnist for theonlinecitizen and Malaysiakini, executive producer of Ilo Ilo (40 international awards), Hotel Mumbai (associate producer), invited to speak more than 200 times in about 40 countries, CIFA advisory board member, founding advisor to the Financial Planning Associations of 2 countries. He has 3 Masters, 2 Bachelors degrees and 13 professional  qualifications.