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Did you know that the average investor has had consistently lower returns than the S&P 500 in the past?
The 20-year annualized return over 2002-2021 of an average investor was just 3.6%, almost six percentage points lower than the S&P 500 return of 9.5%.
If the average investor invested $10,000 and did not contribute any additional capital over those 20 years it would have $20,285.94. At the same time, a portfolio that invested only in the S&P 500 would have $61,416.12, or 3x more when excluding fees and taxes.
In other words, most individual investors have not been able to beat the market. This is especially true during the bear markets as it is shown in the below example:
Professional Investment Funds’ performance is even worse.
More than 90% of actively-managed equity funds underperformed their benchmark in over the last 20 years, according to the S&P Global. In other words, only 10% have beaten the market. Moreover, in the last 10 years less than 7% of these funds have beaten the market.
In terms of stock funds solely, in 2023 alone, 60% of all active large-cap US equity funds underperformed the S&P 500. Back in 2021, only 15% of US large-cap stock funds beat the S&P 500 performance. See the chart below showing the 2001-2023 period.
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