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Missing Top Performing Days Can Hurt Your Return – Blackrock – 01/01/18
Missing Top-Performing Days Can Hurt Your Return Hypothetical Investment of $100,000 in the S&P 500 Index Over the Last 20 Years (1998–2017) The graph below shows how a hypothetical $100,000 investment in stocks would have been affected by missing the market’s top-performing days over the 20-year period from January 1, 1998 to December 31, 2017. For […]
Medicare Part B Premiums 2018
Click to Enlarge Part B premiums are based on tax returns from two years earlier. Medicare doesn’t cover long-term care (also called custodial care). Part B Deductible and Coinsurance You pay $183 per year for your Part B deductible. After your deductible is met, you typically pay 20% of the Medicare-approved amount for these: Most […]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average 1896-2016
Click to Enlarge The Dow Jones Industrial Average 1896-2016 Human Innovation Always Trumps Fears The Dow began its career with 12 components and has risen more than 50,000% over its lifetime. It took 25 years for the market to recover from the 1929 stock-market crash, and 16 years to recover from the combined effect of the […]
Growth of $1 Investment: 1926-2017
Click to Enlarge Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal and fluctuation of value. Equity and fixed income securities are subject to various risks including, but not limited to, market risk, credit risk and interest rate risk. Growth of $1 Investment: 1926-2017 Index Compounded Return US […]