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Mark Dampier: Why the S&P is still the king of indices

Investors could do worse than looking to the US for core holdings

Regions rise and fall, but America is on a run of performance for investors
Regions rise and fall, but America is on a run of performance for investors Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto

Mark Dampier is the former research director of Hargreaves Lansdown and author of Effective Investing.

The last 12 years in markets have really belonged to one country: America.

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