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Strategies & Market Trends : Stock and Bond Market-Timing: Can it be Done? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Kirk © who wrote (133)1/23/2009 7:47:47 PM
From: Math Junkie  Respond to of 3605
 
"Also, using VFINX is not standard because there is a 0.2% a year expense drag which becomes significant over 20 years."

That would work out to about four percent over twenty years.

"What about his reported 3-yr return? What did he show and what did you calculate? He gave those numbers last year in his January 2008 Marketimer."

I haven't seen any three year numbers from him this year.