Suppose you’re aiming for a half-million-dollar house and want a 20% down payment. In that case, your savings target would be $100,000.
You’d be surprised how smart steps today can add up over the years!
Investing $1,000 per month (at an annualized 10% real rate of return, which is approximately the S&P 500 return) works out to $100,000 after only 6 years and 3 months.
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This blows my mind. Four groups of hedge funds (as active as investors can get, aggressively buying and selling) against just passively investing in the S&P 500. Hands down, the winner was the S&P. Admittedly a strong decade but the same is generally true today.
A diverse collection of the most prominent companies is really hard to beat over time.
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If you zoom out a bit, the market has been on a tear for a few years now - it makes sense things should cool off.
The long-term average of the S&P 500 CAPE ratio is around 16.80, so the current level of 34.82 is significantly above the historical average.
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Beating the S&P 500 is difficult because it's designed to represent the strongest companies in the market, and it naturally benefits from long-term economic growth.
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The S&P 500 index price isn't just a simple sum of all the stock prices of its constituents.
It's a weighted index, meaning the value is calculated based on the market capitalization of the companies within it.
Larger companies have more influence on the index's movements than smaller ones.
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