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
0.96
1.33
96.93
Return %
4.07
-3.83
10.08
9.58
Risk - SD
N/A
11.65
14.20
9.49
Growth $1
1.04
0.97
1.31
84.52
Return %
3.77
-3.40
9.42
9.28
Risk - SD
N/A
10.64
13.00
8.77
Growth $1
1.03
0.97
1.29
73.36
Return %
3.46
-2.96
8.76
8.97
Risk - SD
N/A
9.64
11.82
8.05
Growth $1
1.03
0.97
1.26
63.38
Return %
3.16
-2.52
8.09
8.65
Risk - SD
N/A
8.64
10.63
7.35
Growth $1
1.03
0.98
1.24
54.51
Return %
2.85
-2.09
7.41
8.33
Risk - SD
N/A
7.66
9.46
6.66
Growth $1
1.03
0.98
1.22
46.66
Return %
2.55
-1.65
6.72
7.99
Risk - SD
N/A
6.69
8.29
6.00
Growth $1
1.02
0.99
1.19
39.76
Return %
2.24
-1.22
6.03
7.64
Risk - SD
N/A
5.73
7.13
5.35
Growth $1
1.02
0.99
1.17
33.73
Return %
1.94
-0.78
5.33
7.29
Risk - SD
N/A
4.79
5.98
4.74
Growth $1
1.02
1.00
1.15
28.48
Return %
1.63
-0.34
4.62
6.93
Risk - SD
N/A
3.86
4.84
4.18
Growth $1
1.01
1.00
1.12
23.93
Return %
1.33
0.09
3.91
6.56
Risk - SD
N/A
2.96
3.73
3.69
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.)