Some charts that caught my eye this week:
1. Retirement financial savings are higher than anticipated. Right here’s one thing I wrote in All the pieces You Must Know About Saving For Retirement:
My solely retirement rule of thumb is that your financial savings fee needs to be within the double digits as a proportion of revenue. Should you do nothing else in your monetary life than setting a excessive financial savings fee you’ll be alright. Ten p.c is a pleasant aim whereas 15% to twenty% of your revenue could be even higher.
Guess what?
We’re there.
The Wall Road Journal had a narrative this previous week that reveals retirement savers are saving shut to fifteen% of their earnings:
Staff are placing away a report share of their revenue for retirement.
The typical financial savings fee in 401(ok) plans rose to a report excessive 14.3% of revenue within the first three months of this 12 months, based on a Constancy Investments evaluation of the tens of millions of accounts it manages.
Right here’s the chart:
Investor habits has improved and savers are growing their financial savings charges over time.
That is nice information!
Would it not be good if the common stability have been increased than $127,100?
Yeah it could however let’s deal with the positives right here.
2. Worldwide shares have been outperforming for longer than you assume. Overseas shares are crushing the U.S. inventory market this 12 months:
Some international locations are doing even higher:
Shares across the globe are lastly successful by a big margin.1
It seems like it is a current phenomenon however Jeffrey Kleintop has a chart that reveals overseas shares have been outperforming for longer than you assume. This chart reveals European shares versus U.S. shares going again to the underside of the 2022 bear market:
We’re now taking a look at almost three years of outperformance for worldwide equities.
That is an fascinating improvement.
Will it final?
I don’t know.
AI might need one thing to say about this cycle.
3. AI may be unstoppable. Right here’s a chart from Mary Meeker’s most up-to-date deck on the state of tech:
AI adoption is going on at gentle pace tempo. Because the know-how improves it’s solely going to grow to be extra entrenched in our on a regular basis lives.
Perhaps everyone seems to be getting forward of themselves on the potential for this know-how. It wouldn’t be the primary time tech titans have promised us the world goes to alter after which it doesn’t.
However I don’t see the way you cease this practice.
At this level, I might be extra shocked if we don’t see an AI bubble.
Michael talked about these charts, bubbles and way more on this week’s Animal Spirits video:
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Now right here’s what I’ve been studying currently:
Books:
1I’ll have a follow-up put up on the explanations for worldwide outperformance.
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