{"id":4076,"date":"2009-05-21T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getrichslowly.org\/blog\/?p=4076"},"modified":"2019-08-25T12:35:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T19:35:52","slug":"no-crystal-ball-required-getting-better-investment-returns-without-guessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/no-crystal-ball-required-getting-better-investment-returns-without-guessing\/","title":{"rendered":"No Crystal Ball Required: Getting Better Investment Returns (Without Guessing)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Imagine it’s 30 April 1989. You just came into a hundred grand. You plan on investing this money for the next 20 years. Where do you put it?<\/p>\n
Here are four options. No need to look them up on Morningstar<\/a> (in fact, that would be cheating for today’s exercise). Just glance at them and choose which of the four you think would have been the best place for your money over the past two decades.<\/p>\n Go ahead and choose one, and just one. Where would you have committed your money for the past 20 years? Got one? Great. Now, let’s see how they each performed since 30 April 1989, and how much your $100,000 would be worth today.<\/p>\n\n