For the 10% or so of your holdings, though, where you can afford to take more risk in hopes of greater rewards, you need to venture out of index territory to find stocks or funds with the potential for outsize gainsâeven in todayâs hot market.
1 In 2004, a survey counted 1,600 pandas in the wild. 2  An adult panda can weigh about 100-150kg and grow up to 150cm. 3  Pandas have the digestive system of a carnivore, but they have adapted to a vegetarian diet of bamboos.  A panda may eat 12-38kg of bamboo a day.
As of this month, the worldâs population is now 7.2 billion, according to the United Nations, which celebrates World Population Day today. According to U.N. data, half of the people around the globe (3.6 billion) live in just a half-dozen countries. China has the worldâs largest population (1.4 billion), followed by India (1.3 billion). The next most-populous nations â the United States, Indonesia, Brazil and Pakistan â combined have less than 1 billion people. The demographic future for the U.S. and the world looks very different than the recent past.