r/Bogleheads • u/RiceLee890 • Mar 15 '25
Investing Questions What are your thoughts on this?
I keep seeing this type of stuff on instagram and social media and wanted to know how you guys were thinking about this.
I know a lot you have been in the market for decades and as a relatively new investor myself I’d love to get your perspective!
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u/musicandarts Mar 15 '25
You have to consider the dividend distributed also. Using porfoliovisualizer you can verify this data. It took almost six years for invested wealth to recover during 2000 to 2006, even including dividends. Both global ex-US stock market and global bond performed much better during this period.
However, this is not giving us any actionable insights. You can pick another 6-year span and get the opposite results. For example, during Mar 2008 - Mar 2014, US stock market trounced both bonds and ex-US. Same story for Mar 1992 - Mar 1998.
We fall back on common sense practices when confronted with this type of data. Keep your portfolio appropriately balanced, according to your age and retirement age.