Over the last 30 years when the S&P 500 returned 10.35 %
the average investor returned 3.66 %, because the average investor is tinkering and tweaking and adjusting things.
Mistake 3: Panic selling and greedy buying Did you know that over the past three decades, the S&P 500 has produced total returns of about 9 % per year on average, but
the average investors returns were a paltry 1.9 % during that time period?
Research company Dalbar completed a study in 2015 * which showed that
the average investor return over the 20 years leading up to that date (1995 - 2015) was only 4.67 %.
Against
the average investor return of just 2.6 % annually over the ten years through 2013, I would be happy with the dividend fund if it just made the same return as the general stock market.
JA: You know you look at the Behavior Gap, you know, Dalbar does their study, and you take a look at the average investment return versus
the average investor return.
The average investor return over the past five years in the fund was 8.85 %, beating the fund's 8.63 % return.
The average investor return, which takes into account buying and selling behavior, for all but one of the funds was much lower because investors were busy selling, according to Morningstar Inc..
Hence, both investors and the media should interpret the «
average investor return» figures with caution.
Morningstar ® yet again paints a gloomy picture of the so - called «
average investor returns.»
The study found that
the average investor returned 1.65 %!
The difference between average investment returns and
average investor returns is often called the behavior gap.
And the result shows up in
average investor returns.
Here is a graph of returns by asset class from JP Morgan with
the average investor returns added.
For example, the typical diversified equity fund investor would have had a return of 4.5 %, a hair better than the 4.4 % average fund return and well ahead of the 2.9 %
average investor return.
So she's achieved
the average investor return over time.