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Looking at the annual return for the S&P 500 from 1/1/2000 to 3/31/25, some might be surprised to see that return at 7.44%. From 1/1/2022, or the last 27 months, those S&P 500 annual returns are very ...

Since January 1, 2000, through September 30 ’23, the S&P 500 has returned 6.61%, which is below average, if we looked at arithmetic returns for the S&P 500 since 1970. What should give readers pause ...

There are a lot of different numbers cited for the average annual return of the index. And while the average return is easy to compute, it’s important to define what you’re computing. The average ...