What's the hottest investment of 2012? It's stocks, of course. With the S&P 500 up an even 14 percent on the year, according to Bloomberg News, that outpaces every other asset class. That might not sound so remarkable, but it hasn't happened since 1995, when the S&P returned 35 percent, for its biggest year of the last 50 years.
It's not as if other asset classes are having a disappointing year; they're all in positive territory, some of them quite significantly. Here's the scoreboard for the year:
U.S. High-Yield Corporate Bonds: up 13.6 percent
Emerging Market Stocks: up 11.8 percent
Gold: up 10.9 percent
Hedge Funds: up 4.8 percent
U.S. Treasuries: up 2.6 percent
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