Businesses, Stock Markets & the Economy

Worried About Stocks? Why Long-Term Investing Is Crucial (David Booth, Executive Chairman and Founder, Dimensional) Excerpt follows:

“Imagine it’s 25 years ago, 1997:

• • • J.K. Rowling just published the first Harry Potter book.
    • General Motors is releasing the EV1, an electric car with a range of 60 miles.
    • The internet is in its infancy, Y2K looms, and everyone is worried about the Russian financial crisis.

A stranger offers to tell you what’s going to happen over the course of the next 25 years. Here’s the big question: Would you invest in the stock market knowing the following events were going to happen? And could you stay invested?

• • • Asian contagion
    • Russian default
    • Tech collapse
    • 9/11
    • Stocks’ “lost decade”
    • Great Recession
    • Global pandemic
    • Second Russian default

With everything I just mentioned, what would you have done? Gotten into the market? Gotten out? Increased your equity holdings? Decreased them?

Well, let’s look at what happened.

From January of 1997 to December of 2021, the US stock market returned, on average, 9.8% a year.¹”

1.  In US dollars. S&P 500 Index annual returns 1997–2021. S&P data © 2022 S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC, a division of S&P Global. All rights reserved.

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