Where can I find a graph comparing historical returns of the stock market vs savings acct vs govt bonds?
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The graph should compare the growth of a one-time investment (say, 00) made in each option at some point in the past, and should include the effects of compounding interest and divident reinvestment. I’d like to specify a starting and ending date. Ideally, the tool would include an option to adjust for inflation.
I’ve seldom seen such comparisons in print, and have yet to find such a graphing tool on the internet. Yahoo Finance charts compare performance of stocks, indexes, and treasuries, and allows adjustments to start/end dates. However, this tool does not include divident reinvestment, and does not include savings-account returns as a reference point.
I want to show sceptics that, over the long term, the stock market has consistently outperformed other investments, especially "no risk" options such as regular savings accounts and C.D.’s.
June 27th, 2010 at 11:31 pm
Standard and Poor (S&P) have a link on their website that shows a historical comparion between those you have labelled here. I believe the timeframe is from the Depression to the present.
Its a good source to have in your favorites on your web-browser too.
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By the way, I agree whole-heartedly with your intentions here!!!
Most of those ‘skeptics’ are comprised of Financial Advisors that do not want you taking your investments and your financial future into your hands. They would rather live off of your success. I know because I use to be a Financial Advisor, and left because the B/D I was working for found it inappropriate that I was teaching my clients how to monitor their portfolios in order to take on their financial future for themselves. Most FAs don’t know crap about financial investing, just how to get the software to do it for them…they are mostly parasitic salesmen. I only know one in whom I trust.