MSCI: China tops charts as best performing country year-to-date

Korea tops tables in October

Chinese stockmarkets have soared ahead of other regions, according to the latest MSCI indices rankings, returning almost 50% year-to-date, more than double the MSCI ACWI return of 20%.

The latest report by MSCI, which looks at the best and worst performing indices on a monthly basis revealed Korea to be the best performing country for October, having returned 8.4%. But China continues to be the best performer over three months (+9.5%), year-to-date (+49.1%), one (+41.3%) and three (+12.7%) years. The country has also consistently outperformed the MSCI All Country World Index over these time periods. Meanwhile, Switzerland was the worst performing country during October, down 1.7%, but Canada is the worst performer year to date, up by only 11.7%. MSCI: European...