Stocks
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How have stocks performed in the past?
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Best Performance
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Worst Performance
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Average
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S&P 500
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37.58%*
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-22.10%*
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13.4%*
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Over the years, stocks have delivered a positive return averaging 13.4% per year.
*For the period with the year ending 12/30/1988 to 12/31/2007 as reported at
http://www2.standardandpoors.com/spf/xls/index/MONTHLY.xls
on 6/01/08.