haha
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
According to Brett Arends of the WSJ-
"...the real measure of how you're doing as an investor also has to take into account another key issue: How much you would have made if you had just kept your money in a zero-risk investment, like a money market account.
I ran the numbers, and they aren't pretty.
I looked at total shareholder returns, which includes reinvested dividends, for the broad market Wilshire 5000 index. Then I looked at returns in a simply money market account, using data from iMoneyNet.
Bottom line?
"Long term" investors who got into the market after 1995 are pretty much out of luck. They would have done better over that time in a money market fund. "
Trying Times for Long-Term Investors - WSJ.com
Ha
"...the real measure of how you're doing as an investor also has to take into account another key issue: How much you would have made if you had just kept your money in a zero-risk investment, like a money market account.
I ran the numbers, and they aren't pretty.
I looked at total shareholder returns, which includes reinvested dividends, for the broad market Wilshire 5000 index. Then I looked at returns in a simply money market account, using data from iMoneyNet.
Bottom line?
"Long term" investors who got into the market after 1995 are pretty much out of luck. They would have done better over that time in a money market fund. "
Trying Times for Long-Term Investors - WSJ.com
Ha