Planning Briefs
Finding The Truth About Long-Term Investing Is Too Hard
Published Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at: 8:28 AM EDT
The Wall Street Journal published an article on October 19 about investing that illustrates the difficulty for investors in understanding the basics of long-term retirement planning. Criticizing America’s No. 1 financial newspaper is not done lightly, and it’s important to see how the press often undermines prudent investing concepts crucial to retirement success. Here goes:
One of the best ways to analyze a retirement portfolio’s performance is through rolling time frames. Rolling returns are a useful way to analyze the performance of a retirement portfolio over many different time periods. It offers a more accurate picture than a single period. Rolling returns enable investors to better understand the behavior of a retirement portfolio as actually experienced by retirees.
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