Over the last few years, the rewards have kept on coming investors’ way. The S&P 500, considered a representation of the broader stock market, is up 16.5% over the last 52 weeks. In addition, the index has posted an average gain of 10.2% and 15.3% per year over the last five and ten years, respectively. So, everything seems hunky-dory on Wall Street.Unfortunately, this is not actually the case. According to Dalbar, a financial services market research firm, the average investor typically earns significantly less than the market. For example, over the 30-year period through 2019, the S&P 500 returned an …read more
Source:: Yahoo Finance
