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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: tedthedog ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: euros
Date: 04/20/25 11:37 AM
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I share the desire to be ex-US and not overweight a handful of stocks.
But what is the forecast for VEU, both the reasoning behind, and the estimate of, future returns?

The past results have not been stellar (from 2007-03-08):
Annualized Return 3.74%
maxDrawdown 61.52%

There have been some better sub-periods e.g. from 2023 on
Annualized Return 11.34%

If take a typical investor's horizon, say 3 years, and look at annualized return over rolling 3 years, then the median (as well as mean) is about 4.5%
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