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cecilpl2
on Nov 20, 2019
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Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can lea...
The S&P500 with dividends reinvested has averaged a real (post-inflation) return of 7% annually over the last 100 years or so.
jjoonathan
on Nov 20, 2019
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100 years isn't really "these days," though.
NightlyDev
on Nov 21, 2019
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Not sure what that is supposed to mean. It's ~9 % the last ~5 years.
ac29
on Nov 21, 2019
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But only ~4% over the last 20 [0]. If you cherry pick start and end dates, you can make stock market returns look as good or bad as you'd like.
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https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&t...
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