re: Investing for the long term

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If you had a diversified portfolio including total US equity market, international, emerging markets, small/mid value, intermediate T's and TIPS, total bond market, IG corps---you would have done very well reinvesting dividends and adding new money.

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This is correct. I happen to know that because that is in fact what I did and did reasonably well over the period. The sectors I chose aren't quite the same but it's the same basic idea.