Navigating their way through a volatile geopolitical backdrop and tariff uncertainty, emerging markets delivered robust gains in 2025, with stocks rising roughly 26%, per Reuters.Investors, increasingly optimistic that emerging markets will continue with their momentum in 2026, attributed the outperformance to increased diversification flows away from developed markets and reform progress across emerging economies, per the abovementioned Reuters article. According to an HSBC survey, emerging market pessimis ...

For years, YouTube star Hank Green has stuck to the same straightforward investing wisdom touted by legends like Warren Buffett: Put your money in an S&P 500 index fund and leave it alone. It’s advice that has paid off handsomely for millions of investors: This year alone, the index is up roughly some 16% and averaged more than 20% in gains over the past three years and roughly 14.6% over the past two decades. In most cases, it has easily beaten investors who try to pick individual stocks like Tesla or Me ...