* Keep track of the cost of
the portfolio at some point in history (say) $ 5,000.
Not exact matches
As a result, even though expected returns on stocks were actually negative on a 10 - 12 year horizon
in 2000, and are presently 0 - 2 % on that horizon, the expected return on a traditional
portfolio mix is actually lower
at present than
at any
point in history except the 1929 and 1937 market peaks.
My thought is that the way to do it would be to go back to earlier
points in history, determine the SWRs that applied for various
portfolio allocation strategies
at those times, and then look forward to see how the strategies fared
in the years that followed.
At no
point in the
history of the
portfolios have we factored
in taxes on return calculations.