by Greg Guenthner
Daily Reckoning
Feel like the market’s always beating you to a pulp?
That might be because it is always beating you. You’re about to learn why. And more importantly, how you can get out of that nasty trap…
The inflation-adjusted average annual return for the S&P 500 over the past 80 years or so is about 7%. So through bull and bear markets, long-term investors should be averaging about 7% per year. Not bad. With compounding, that’s a truckload of money over time.
Except most investors aren’t coming close to that mark…