Noting EIIB's operational progress, and
spectacular equity market returns, that's a damning level of under - performance — versus, for example, the FTSE AIM All - Share Index (up +20.3 % in 2013), the Bloomberg GCC 200 Index (+26.7 %), or the Dubai Financial Market General Index (+107.7 %).
Since 1999 the US financial world has had two 30 % + drops in the stock
market (the «risk») and for those who did not panic and sell, a subsequent
market recovery has generated an 8 % annualized
return on
equities even including the two
spectacular drops.