Understand that the performance for Morgan's index is a total return, net of all expropriations and currency crises.

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This 7% is about equal to the total return you can expect on stocks, net of inflation.

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In the last quarter, Alliance grew its net asset value (NAV) by 3.3% and delivered a total return of 5.7% for shareholders.

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