Over the past 18 months Fathia Bomba has thumped the market, earning a compound return of 72%.
Rockwell's 22% four-year compound return on invested capital puts it at the top of the defense industry.
Likewise, there was a nearly 27 year period where gold produced a negative nominal compound return and a significantly negative real return.
Also, in the one 5% plus inflation surge that was in this data set, the CRB index produced a nominal compound return of 1.58% and a real return of minus 3.32%.
Treasury bills have a compound return of 3.7%.
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The basic result showed that an investor would have achieved a 16.5%annual compound return if he had allocated his capital among these three alternatives in the following proportions: 61% in the U.S., 26% in Europe and the Far East, and 13% in emerging markets (see chart).
What I do know is that for the limited data set I have, the CRB index produced a nominal compound return of 0.77%, a real return of minus 2.16%, a standard deviation that is twice that of Treasuries, had a twelve month period with a loss of 48.74% and had a 27 year period with a negative compound return.
Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.
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Even in this scenario, Apple just meets the breakeven required rate of return, delivering a 10% compound annual return.
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Over the past five years the USAA fund has delivered a 6.8% compound annual return, versus the average 6.1%.
Second-quartile stocks did best with an 11.2% compound annual return through January 2002, followed by the third quartile at 9.1%.
Since taking his New Century Financial, a real estate investment trust, public in 1997, he has delivered a 25% compound annual return to shareholders.
The fund has gained a 19.7% compound annualized return since its inception in June 1998, compared with 6.6% for a hedged version of Japan's topix index.
With such maneuvers this fund has managed a -8.3% compound annual return over the past five years, putting it in the bottom 4% of all stock funds.
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Delafield has something else you might be interested in: a 12% compound annual return over the last two full market cycles (two downs and two ups since August 2000).
Since he started Pabrai Investment Funds in 1999, he has delivered a 35.3% compound annual return (after fees), to the 14.2% a year you would have made owning Berkshire shares.
The long-term results are not very impressive: Over the two full market cycles Pin Oak has averaged a compound annual return of -6%, putting it 8 points behind the 500 index.
They are accustomed to the firm's plodding pace and wide-angle view, which combined to produce a compound annual return of 27% over the past 30 years (double the rise in broad stock market averages).
Joe saves this same amount annually until age 70 and earns an average compound annual return over that time of 6% by investing in a balanced mix of low-cost stock and bond mutual funds.
Here the compound annual return is 8.8%.
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Since its inception in 1992, Deutsche's no-load Fixed Income Fund, the larger of two with a 7.83% compound annual return after expenses ranks in the top 6% of all investment-grade funds with average maturities of five to ten years, says fund-tracking service Lipper Inc.
Carlson has delivered a 13% compound annual return since then, a percentage point better than the emerging market index and better than double what you would have earned from the collection of high-grade U.S. paper in the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund .
All these have a survivorship bias: investments mentioned at dinner parties, stocks charted in Value Line, entrepreneurs featured in FORBES, stock market histories (does your data set include the --100% compound annual return on Russia over the past century?), available hedge fund performance numbers and every mutual fund ad.
The point being that stocks paid off over 8 decades with a compound rate of return over 10%.
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Over that period the Index (not including dividends) had logged a compound annual average return of more than 12 percent.
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At any rate, it's not the same as making 40% a year for 15 years on a mutual fund, which would compound to a 15, 500% return.
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