Mann Institute: 100 years of US stock returns. Eight doublings. Three halvings. What lessons can we learn?
My wife’s great grandmother died this year aged 100. Ida Beckett, this is your life (in US stock returns): Figure 1: S&P price returns over last 100 years1 Source: Bloomberg, Man Group calculations. Here’s a history in eight doublings. Or, if you prefer, four double doublings: 1. 1927 was a bad time to start investing. The…...

