This document contains multiple charts and graphs related to stock market performance and returns over long periods of time. It shows data on annual returns by decade from 1900 to 2000, average annual returns for different age cohorts from birth years 1910 to 1950, inflation rates experienced in people's 20s from different generations, and distribution of annual returns for the S&P 500 from 1871 to 2011.

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Stock Advisor S&P 500 Percent of the time Stock Advisor was below previous all-time high

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Inflation-adjusted average annual returns by decade

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Age13=1
Age
What stocks did in your teens and 20s
Born in 1970 1950 1920 1930 1940

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35 40 45 50 55
Age35=1
Age
What stocks did when you were age 35 to 55
Born in 1910 1930 1920 1940 1950

11. 8.3%
2.1%
-1.5%
Parents Me Grandparents Germany
Average annual inflation in yours 20s

12. What Makes the Market Tick?
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0.23
0.18
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P/ERatio
Governmentdebt/GDP
Dividendyield
Rainfall
Trailing10-yearstock
returns
TrendGDPgrowth
Trendearningsgrowth
10-yearTreasuryyield
Corporateprofitmargins
Trailing1-yearstock
returns
Consensusearningsgrowth
ConsensusGDPgrowth
1= Very strong predictability
0= Very weak predictability

14. 78%
36%
32%
20%
12%
0%
One day Six months One year Five years Ten years 20 years
Odds of Losing Money in the S&P 500 -- 1871-2014

15. This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things:
2005-2007: $241 billion put into stock funds
2008-2009: $230 billion pulled out of stock funds
2013-2014: $239 billion put into stock funds

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1% to 10% 11% to
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21% to
30%
31% to
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60%
NumberofyearstheS&Phasreturnedthismuch
S&P 500 total real return distribution
1871-2011