Did You Beat The Market, Mr. Investor?

calculating the annualized returns (cagr) of your investments

In my previous post, I wrote about the Beardstown Ladies who had to suffer public humiliation because they couldn’t tell what their annualized returns were. In their defense, not many investors do know what their actual returns are! Why? Because most brokers, don’t provide that information, including online portfolio managers like Google Portfolio and Yahoo [...]

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The Beardstown Ladies

Beardstown Ladies common-sense investment guide moneycone finance

In 1983 a group of elderly women in a little town in the Midwest called Beardstown, decided to form an investment club called the Beardstown Business and Professional Women’s Investment Club. The meetings were focussed on companies whose business they could understand and relate to. Their methodology was simple. Every member put in $100 seed [...]

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