World’s Assets By Geographic Area
Ever wonder how the world’s liquid, investable assets are currently broken down by geographic area?
This is based on market capitalization as calculated by the MSCI Global Capital Markets Index. The United States by itself is approximately 45%. It will be interested to see how this graph will change in the next decade.
February 9th, 2007 at 11:09 am
Also will be interesting to see how the definition of “Emerging Market” will change. At some point, these countries may actually “emerge”, right?
Will Korea be included instead in “Asia and Pacific”?
Will Brazil make necessary the creation of a “Developed South America” category?
February 9th, 2007 at 11:19 am
Emerging markets are stealing all my money!
February 9th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Brazil is considered an emerging market. Korea is in asia why shouldn’t she be in now i don’t konw about North Korea
Asia Pacific includes China/HK,Japan,South Korea,Singapore,
February 10th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Looks like N. America is pretty wealthy, but I see that changing in the future when emerging markets emerge (dubia)
February 11th, 2007 at 1:36 am
The pie is obviously going to get bigger, but I guess how the slices will change will depend on the growth rates of the countries. People have doubted the US market before, remember when Japan was supposed to take over the world?
Asia is definitely a huge factor, I’ve been reading The World Is Flat and it’s both exciting and scary.
February 11th, 2007 at 9:03 am
[...] This is an interesting statistics of the world assets by geography, courtesy of My Money Blog. I remember from Jeremy Siegal’s recent book “The Future for Investors”, one trend is the emerging middle class in developing countries (Brazil, China, India etc.) are going to buy assets from the “baby boomers” in the developed economies. In other words, maybe 20 years from now, 5% of Microsoft will be owned by Chinese and Indians. This also reminded me one more number,?the saving rate in China is 50%, and the US saving rate last year is -2%. Note the interest rate in China is quite low, and investment options are not plenty. The Chinese domestic stock market is taking off lately, but I think many people will buy foreign equities if the Yuan (RMB) become a hard currency. [...]
February 13th, 2007 at 11:17 am
Korea, Brazil, China, Hong Kong all currently emerging markets according to Vanguard.
I assumed Korea and Brazil would be “promoted” at sometime in the not too distant future, hence my post…