The two tables below rank historical annual stock market performance for different developed and emerging markets from highest to lowest in each year.
Each colour corresponds to a different country, and the patchwork dispersion of colours shows no predictable pattern in either the developed or the emerging markets.
Investors who follow a structured, diversified strategy are therefore more likely to capture the returns wherever they happen to occur in any given year.
This diversified strategy also reduces the risk of being too heavily invested in any one country that happens to perform particularly badly in any given year.
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