XIX - 12/9/2016 11:19 My index fund has a 16% return average over the last 5 years, and over 10% since inception. Does that count?
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0040&Fund...IMO, an index fund is waaaay riskier than insured crop farming.
If you want to know how safe your banker thinks your index fund is see if he'll loan you a million $ to put in it.
Easy $110k if he'll loan you the money at 5%.
Heck, see if he'll bite for 8%, you'd still clear $80k for doing nothing ;-
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