Market Statistics – March 2019

Looking for reliable data on recent market performance? Here you’ll find a PDF document of the monthly statistics for the month of March for the various Canadian, U.S. and international markets that we follow.

Source: DFA 2.0

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Canadian Income Securities

Title	1 month	Year-to-date	1 year	3 years	5 years	10 years	20 years	30 years	5-year Std Dev
Inflation (One month lag)	0.67	0.82	1.51	1.90	1.62	1.69	1.94	2.07	1.19
Treasury Bills	0.13	0.40	1.47	0.90	0.83	0.82	2.20	3.84	0.14
Short Term Bonds	0.85	1.74	3.46	1.44	1.87	2.51	4.04	5.87	1.44
Total Bond Market	2.35	3.91	5.27	2.70	3.77	4.41	5.24	7.28	3.95
Preferred Shares	-0.46	1.11	-6.77	6.23	0.02	4.03	-	-	10.05
REITs	3.81	15.77	21.46	12.85	9.61	16.66	12.45	-	10.74
Utilities	4.59	16.12	12.31	7.94	7.27	10.11	9.15	9.27	11.47

U.S. Income Securities

Title	1 month	Year-to-date	1 year	3 years	5 years	10 years	20 years	30 years	5-year Std Dev
Total Bond Market in USD	1.92	2.94	4.48	2.03	2.74	3.77	4.73	6.16	2.93
High-Yield Bonds in USD	0.94	7.26	5.93	8.56	4.68	11.26	6.83	8.08	5.67
High-Yield Bonds	2.39	4.91	9.77	9.74	8.75	11.93	6.17	8.48	8.25
Emerging Market Bonds	2.55	3.84	6.30	5.17	8.57	8.32	8.48	-	9.39
REITs	5.95	14.61	24.83	9.01	14.28	19.51	10.41	11.07	18.02

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Canadian Equity

Title	1 month	Year-to-date	1 year	3 years	5 years	10 years	20 years	30 years	5-year Std Dev
Total Market	1.01	13.29	8.11	9.26	5.44	9.49	7.18	7.85	9.46
Large Cap	0.97	12.54	9.04	9.95	6.34	9.31	7.28	8.64	9.44
Value	-0.50	12.30	6.52	11.89	5.80	11.24	8.39	8.71	11.87
Growth	2.18	13.83	8.86	6.91	5.21	6.75	3.93	6.12	9.56
Small Cap	-1.10	10.71	-1.81	5.91	0.22	8.13	-	-	14.71

U.S. Equity

Title	1 month	Year-to-date	1 year	3 years	5 years	10 years	20 years	30 years	5-year Std Dev
Large Cap	3.41	11.16	13.46	14.74	15.23	16.62	5.38	10.59	12.07
Large Cap in USD	1.94	13.65	9.50	13.51	10.91	15.92	6.04	10.18	12.40
Large Cap Value	2.52	9.74	9.77	11.82	12.25	15.18	5.31	-	10.85
Large Cap Growth	4.20	12.44	16.85	17.17	17.78	17.87	5.20	-	14.10
Small Cap	-0.68	12.08	5.75	14.15	11.22	16.06	7.77	9.85	16.94
Small Cap in USD	-2.09	14.58	2.05	12.92	7.05	15.36	8.44	9.44	17.50
Small Cap Value	-1.49	9.48	3.80	12.06	9.70	14.80	8.72	10.65	15.99

International Equity

Title	1 month	Year-to-date	1 year	3 years	5 years	10 years	20 years	30 years	5-year Std Dev
Developed Markets	2.19	7.72	0.29	8.97	6.81	10.13	3.74	5.30	11.64
Developed Markets in Local Currencies	1.45	10.73	3.36	9.06	6.48	10.27	4.09	4.69	11.52
Europe	2.17	8.57	0.41	8.38	5.59	10.27	3.75	8.25	13.02
Pacific	2.25	6.29	-0.09	10.30	9.34	10.00	3.76	2.40	13.73
Developed Markets Value	1.05	5.71	-2.14	8.71	5.18	9.39	4.17	6.17	11.68
Developed Markets Growth	3.31	9.73	2.72	9.20	8.39	10.80	3.16	4.36	12.38
Developed Markets Small Cap	1.68	8.34	-5.72	9.07	8.92	13.82	-	-	12.42
Emerging Markets	2.31	7.56	-3.69	12.29	8.11	9.97	8.05	9.73	14.41