Credit Suisse’s Global Investment Returns Yearbook 2015 is a must read for investors. This year, the yearbook contains some extremely interesting long-term (115 years) data on industries (see Credit Suisse; The Rise And Fall Of Industries) and international equity markets.
Long-term returns
Credit Suisse’s analysts have put together some data on the performance of financial markets within individual countries over the past 115 years. The research covers 23 countries and three regions all with index series that start in 1900.
Three countries were added in 2013, including Austria, Russia and China. Russia and China have a gap in their financial market histories from the start of their communist régimes until securities trading recommenced. For each region, there are stock and bond...

