Your best investment is a global tax-managed mix of index funds (risk exposure) matched to your unique risk capacity. We call this CEO Investing: Capacity-Exposure Optimization. Here are 20 Portfolios of Indexes and the growth of a dollar, return and standard deviation over several periods.
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IFA Indexes
YTD ending 1/2012
1 yr ending 2011
3 yrs 2009- 2011
50 yrs 1962- 2011
Growth $1
1.04
1.02
1.49
84.28
Return %
4.48
2.11
14.11
9.27
Risk - SD
N/A
15.94
18.97
15.20
Growth $1
1.07
0.91
1.57
336.45
Return %
6.99
-8.57
16.13
12.34
Risk - SD
N/A
21.21
24.80
16.37
Growth $1
1.07
0.92
1.55
288.06
Return %
6.75
-7.95
15.62
11.99
Risk - SD
N/A
20.66
24.39
15.90
Growth $1
1.07
0.93
1.52
245.17
Return %
6.51
-7.32
15.10
11.63
Risk - SD
N/A
20.15
24.02
15.47
Growth $1
1.06
0.93
1.50
222.03
Return %
6.20
-6.89
14.50
11.41
Risk - SD
N/A
19.04
22.76
14.70
Growth $1
1.06
0.94
1.48
200.08
Return %
5.90
-6.45
13.88
11.18
Risk - SD
N/A
17.95
21.52
13.94
Growth $1
1.06
0.94
1.45
179.43
Return %
5.59
-6.01
13.27
10.94
Risk - SD
N/A
16.88
20.28
13.18
Growth $1
1.05
0.94
1.43
160.13
Return %
5.29
-5.58
12.64
10.69
Risk - SD
N/A
15.81
19.05
12.43
Growth $1
1.05
0.95
1.41
142.24
Return %
4.98
-5.14
12.01
10.42
Risk - SD
N/A
14.75
17.83
11.69
Growth $1
1.05
0.95
1.38
125.75
Return %
4.68
-4.71
11.37
10.15
Risk - SD
N/A
13.71
16.61
10.95
Growth $1
1.04
0.96
1.36
110.66
Return %
4.38
-4.27
10.73
9.87
Risk - SD
N/A
12.68
15.40
10.21
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. ** Annualized standard deviation is presented as an approximation by multiplying the monthly or quarterly standard deviation by the square root of the number of periods in a year. Please note that the standard deviation computed from annual data may differ materially from this estimate. See additional information below. Disclosure for Backtested Performance Information ( click here.)