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 Indexfolios
Data Label
YTD ending Dec. 2008
1 Yr ending 2003
3 Yrs 2006- 2008
50 Yrs 1959- 2008
Growth $1
0.63
1.28
0.77
75.93
Return %
-36.77
28.49
-8.28
9.05
Risk - SD
20.92
11.41
15.22
14.69
Growth $1
0.59
1.49
0.74
296.05
Return %
-40.55
48.75
-9.40
12.05
Risk - SD
28.06
14.05
19.85
15.41
Growth $1
0.59
1.46
0.74
255.11
Return %
-40.86
46.22
-9.53
11.72
Risk - SD
27.89
13.37
19.68
14.93
Growth $1
0.59
1.44
0.74
218.50
Return %
-41.17
43.7
-9.66
11.38
Risk - SD
27.74
12.72
19.55
14.49
Growth $1
0.61
1.42
0.76
199.13
Return %
-38.90
41.58
-8.72
11.17
Risk - SD
25.97
12.10
18.38
13.77
Growth $1
0.63
1.39
0.78
180.59
Return %
-36.63
39.47
-7.82
10.95
Risk - SD
24.25
11.48
17.23
13.07
Growth $1
0.66
1.37
0.81
163.01
Return %
-34.36
37.35
-6.95
10.72
Risk - SD
22.58
10.86
16.12
12.36
Growth $1
0.68
1.35
0.83
146.45
Return %
-32.10
35.24
-6.11
10.49
Risk - SD
20.97
10.24
15.03
11.67
Growth $1
0.70
1.33
0.85
130.97
Return %
-29.83
33.12
-5.30
10.24
Risk - SD
19.39
9.63
13.96
10.97
Growth $1
0.72
1.31
0.87
116.60
Return %
-27.56
31.00
-4.52
9.99
Risk - SD
17.86
9.01
12.91
10.28
Growth $1
0.75
1.29
0.89
103.33
Return %
-25.29
28.89
-3.76
9.72
Risk - SD
16.38
8.40
11.89
9.60
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.)