re <<If you had bought $10,000.00 worth of the NASDAQ 100 in July of 2007, by December '24 your investment would be worth $112,778>>
unsure of what your point is, but ...
otoh, 1 usd invested in HK real estate at astutely chosen addresses in 1999 would result in 10 usd proceeds in 2021, a particularly good moment to unload, and had one leveraged 9:1, the returns would be whatever, like 100X
another example, Message 22370078
(a) a tranche of HK Stock Exchange finance.yahoo.com at HKD 58/share 1.0 invested in 2006 would be 6.3X plus ~4% per annum dividends, adding another 80%
a lot of ifs and or buts but nothing much to do with portfolio management
In the meantime, unsure that gold as savings should be views as a hedge as we should soon enough see a halving of S&P500 and perhaps concurrently a 50% devaluation of the USD, all within the window of 2026 - 2032, from TeoTwawKi and Darkest Interregnum, meaning at the same time as gold could well score at least a 22% per annum increase over the coming 48 months and end up at 6,457 usd; some hedge.
a lot of ifs and or buts but everything to do with portfolio management.
FYI, BTW, December 2018, 2021 - 2024 were particularly good moments to GetMoreGold

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