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What lessons can investors learn from the meme stock craze?

Three years and a motion picture later, the meme stock legacy is largely meaningless
December 6, 2023
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This week, in a first for the Investors’ Chronicle, both stocks in our ideas section are US-listed.

We make no apologies for this. While the UK market remains our bread and butter, it is hard to overstate the importance of US equities to investor portfolios in 2023. A mind-blowing 70 per cent of the MSCI World and 63 per cent of the MSCI All-Country World indices are now allocated to US shares. We’ve even permanently allocated one of our crack writers, Arthur Sants, to the land of the free.

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