{"id":41695,"date":"2026-07-05T16:27:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/free-international-historical-return-data-files-2\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T16:27:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:27:33","slug":"free-international-historical-return-data-files-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/free-international-historical-return-data-files-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Free International Historical Return Data Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Getting good data is a big hurdle for retail investors. Reliable return histories are often locked behind thousand dollar a year subscriptions. But you can get a lot for free.<\/p>\n<p>I put together a small return dataset covering developed-market stocks, sovereign bonds, interest rates, and currencies.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to consolidate the kinds of return series that are useful for testing global asset allocation strategies, especially those involving foreign equity, sovereign bonds, currency hedging, and excess returns.<\/p>\n<p>The dataset includes 50+ years of coverage across several files. All available for free. Check it out!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/birjusuketupatel\/ReturnDataFiles\/tree\/main\">https:\/\/github.com\/birjusuketupatel\/ReturnDataFiles\/tree\/main<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: Reposting bc the mods removed post on original subreddit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/NecessarySpread2592\"> \/u\/NecessarySpread2592 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1uo2x36\/free_international_historical_return_data_files\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1uo2x36\/free_international_historical_return_data_files\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-41695 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='41695' data-nonce='9de69db8d5' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-41695 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-41695 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting good data is a big hurdle for retail investors. Reliable return histories are often locked behind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}