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 🌍 Is Investing in Global Markets Optional? The Numbers Say No.


Most investors stick to what they know — their home market. But 2024's market returns tell a very different story.

Here's how the three biggest economic powerhouses performed last year:
🇺🇸 United States (S&P 500): +25% Fuelled by the AI revolution, mega-cap tech dominance, and two consecutive years of 20%+ returns — the best such run since the dot-com era. Nvidia alone surged 171%.

🇨🇳 China (CSI 300): +15% Written off by many investors early in the year, China came roaring back in the second half after the government unveiled sweeping economic stimulus. Those who stayed patient or positioned early were rewarded.

🇮🇳 India (Nifty 50): +8.8% Still positive — and still one of the best-performing large economies over the past decade — but a relative underperformer in 2024 after years of exceptional returns. Valuations had run ahead of earnings, and markets corrected course.

What does this tell us?
No single market leads every year. In 2023, India was a star. In 2024, the US dominated while China surprised. In 2025, the script will be written differently again.

If you had invested only in India in 2024, you left roughly 16 percentage points on the table compared to the US. If you had only been in the US in prior years when India outperformed, the story would flip.

This is exactly why global diversification is not a luxury — it is a discipline.
Concentrating your entire portfolio in one country is not investing. It's betting. And the odds are that the country you're most confident about is also the one the market has already priced most optimistically.

The data isn't telling us to abandon any of these markets. It's telling us to stop choosing.

🔑 Key takeaway: The world's wealth is not created in one country. Neither should your portfolio be. Allocate across geographies, rebalance when one market runs hot, and let time — not geography — be your biggest edge.

What does your global allocation look like today? Let's talk in the comments. 👇
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