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Investing for the long term
Posted on 8/5/11 at 10:51 am
Posted on 8/5/11 at 10:51 am
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Look at the link and view the DOW on the "All" setting. Just eyeballing it, it appears that the if you averaged everything that has happened since 1999, the results would be no better than 1999.
If you are a diversified buy and hold investor whose whose stock portfolio follows the DJIA, your stocks would have seen almost no gain over the past 11 years. Plenty of AAA bonds have taken a beatdown as well with the mortgage crisis, not to mention GM and Lehman.
Was this just a bad decade or have the rules changed? Can you still expect gains as a hands off in it for the long term investor?
Look at the link and view the DOW on the "All" setting. Just eyeballing it, it appears that the if you averaged everything that has happened since 1999, the results would be no better than 1999.
If you are a diversified buy and hold investor whose whose stock portfolio follows the DJIA, your stocks would have seen almost no gain over the past 11 years. Plenty of AAA bonds have taken a beatdown as well with the mortgage crisis, not to mention GM and Lehman.
Was this just a bad decade or have the rules changed? Can you still expect gains as a hands off in it for the long term investor?
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Posted on 8/5/11 at 11:46 am to eelsuee
nobody knows.
Posted on 8/5/11 at 12:57 pm to eelsuee
Another question to ask is how many people are making the same or less than the amount they made from employment in 1999? Nominal and inflation adjusted.
This post was edited on 8/5/11 at 12:58 pm
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