2025 Annual Market Review — Stocks, Bonds, and Global Market Performance
The 2025 Annual Market Review provides a detailed look at how financial markets performed over the past year. The accompanying deck breaks down results across stocks and bonds, with additional insight into regional trends, sector performance, and differences by market size.
Market outcomes in 2025 reflected a combination of resilient economic growth, moderating inflation, and shifting monetary policy expectations. While headline results were strong in some areas, performance varied meaningfully beneath the surface, highlighting the importance of understanding where gains were concentrated and where conditions were more challenging.
This Annual Market Review is designed to provide clear, data-driven context on what drove market performance during the year. The full deck is available for download on our website.
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