FYI:The S&P 500 is now up 270% from the lows made in March 2009, but how many people were actually able to harvest those gains? In the 89 months since the market bottomed, investors have had had a barrage of distractions thrown at them. From the Sequestration to the Fiscal Cliff and from China to Greece, walls of worry seemed to just blur into one another. And unfortunately, many investors allowed these fears to drive their decisions. Since March 2009, the largest S&P 500 ETF, SPY, grew at an annualized 18.08%. But over that time, investors in SPY earned just an annualized 11.82%*. The difference between 18.08% and 11.82% over 7.5 years is a whopping 115%!
Regards,
Ted
http://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2016/08/10/distractions-cost-investors-115/
