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Module 2 · Return engines · Lesson 4 of 5 · 4:09
Total return and realistic expectations
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About the full course
What total return means, how compounding turns 8% into ten times your money in 30 years, what history really delivered, and four red flags.
In this lesson
- Price plus dividends, and the rule of 72
- What stocks and bonds actually returned since 1872 and since 1993
- Four red flags in any investment promise
Apply it
Open the compound interest calculator. Enter your own numbers at 5% and at 8%.