Investment opportunities exist all around the globe, but the randomness of global stock returns makes it exceedingly difficult to figure out which markets are likely to be outperformers. How should investors deal with this kind of uncertainty?

Mac McQuown recruited me to help create the very first indexed portfolio in 1971. I was 24 years old and living in San Francisco, where more people my age were following the Grateful Dead than the stock market.

The US stock market has been the place to be in recent years: while the UK’s FTSE All Share is up 91%, the S&P 500 has returned a huge 341% in the past decade, led in the main by the giant technology companies. As the US represents 54.5% of the global stock market, the MFP portfolios have all benefitted from this growth.

It’s not unusual to hear me say that timing the markets doesn’t work. Instead, I recommend creating an investment plan that’s designed to meet your individual goals and sticking with it. (With regular reviews, of course, to make sure your plan is still on track to deliver what matters to you most.)

The Top 7 Factors that affect your Financial Independence are listed below: How much you invest – Commit to investing How often you invest –

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