Today’s Chart of the Day shows that a combined 68% of Americans have paid off their mortgage or have at least 50% in equity. If there is a “downturn” in the real estate market, it will not look like ones in the past.
Over the last five years, 87% of actively managed funds in the U.S. underperformed their index. Today’s Chart of the Day from S&P Global shows this trend also holds true around the world. Why?
Today’s Chart of the Day from iShares by BlackRock shows that, even though we've experienced numerous financial problems along the way, $100,000 invested in the stock market in 1980 grew to $11.2 million today.
Today's Chart of the Day is the history of bank failures from USAFacts. The year 1989 was the height with 531 banks failing from a savings and loan crisis. For perspective, there have only been three in 2023.
Today’s Chart of the Day is from a BlackRock research paper on concentrated portfolio risks. In it, they graph the top 25 performing stocks over the past 10 years, starting from 10 years ago, and their subsequent underperformance over the next 10. (Resulting in their total performance over the last 20 years.)
Today's chart from Morningstar shows there is a 90% chance you would not run out of money during your life following these projected safe withdrawal rates based on equity weightings.
