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 8/2010
1 yr ending 2009
3 yrs 2007- 2009
50 yrs 1960- 2009
Growth $1
1.00
1.23
0.97
104.63
Return %
-0.20
22.88
-0.90
9.75
Risk - SD
N/A
17.48
14.59
9.25
Growth $1
1.00
1.21
0.99
91.07
Return %
0.06
21.09
-0.38
9.44
Risk - SD
N/A
16.04
13.31
8.55
Growth $1
1.00
1.19
1.00
78.91
Return %
0.32
19.31
0.10
9.13
Risk - SD
N/A
14.60
12.05
7.86
Growth $1
1.01
1.18
1.02
68.05
Return %
0.57
17.53
0.55
8.81
Risk - SD
N/A
13.18
10.80
7.18
Growth $1
1.01
1.16
1.03
58.42
Return %
0.83
15.75
0.97
8.48
Risk - SD
N/A
11.76
9.57
6.52
Growth $1
1.01
1.14
1.04
49.91
Return %
1.09
13.97
1.35
8.13
Risk - SD
N/A
10.36
8.35
5.87
Growth $1
1.01
1.12
1.05
42.45
Return %
1.34
12.19
1.72
7.78
Risk - SD
N/A
8.96
7.15
5.25
Growth $1
1.02
1.10
1.06
35.93
Return %
1.60
10.40
2.05
7.43
Risk - SD
N/A
7.58
5.98
4.66
Growth $1
1.02
1.09
1.07
30.27
Return %
1.85
8.62
2.35
7.06
Risk - SD
N/A
6.21
4.83
4.13
Growth $1
1.02
1.07
1.08
25.38
Return %
2.11
6.84
2.63
6.68
Risk - SD
N/A
4.86
3.72
3.67
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.)