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It’s not been hard to get more than those returns in recent history.

The Nasdaq-100 total returns have been 32% last year and 155% over the past five years. This is a average of just over 20% a year.

Source: https://www.nasdaq.com/markets/indices/nasdaq-total-returns....

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I imagine if you looked at the 5 years leading up to 2000, the nasdaq would have some astronomical annualized returns. However, it’s too specific an index and too narrow a time range to draw any meaningful conclusions about the kind of total market returns an investor can expect over the next several decades.

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