Since the UK decided more than three years ago to leave the European Union, the nation’s savviest investors have succeeded by putting their money where Brexit matters least. Uncertainty about the date of Britain’s departure (now pushed back to October 31) and the terms of the divorce has meant purging the UK from their holdings or limiting them to investments ...

In 1960, South Korea had a total fertility rate of more than six children per woman, high enough to cause a population explosion. But as the country developed, this number dropped decade by decade: A country needs a fertility rate of about 2.1—a little more than one child per parent — to maintain long-term population stability. South Korea’s fertility is ...

China’s new GDP numbers show that the world’s second-biggest economy is growing more slowly than at any time since the early 1990s. Chinese leaders know what they need to do to arrest the slide: pump more credit into private companies, which generate the majority of jobs and growth. The fact that growth isn’t picking up regardless of their efforts would ...