Yeah. The last 10 years have arguably been something of an outlier but there is no shortage of companies in which a 2010 investment wouldn't have you looking at a nice pile of money in 2020. Returns in fact that a lot of people peddling "accredited investor" type products would probably kill for. And, as you say, a
really boring index fund wouldn't have done half-badly either.
I just want to know where these special opportunities are hiding. I do have an investment that pays me an annuity from an endowment that includes some less standard investments. But, while they get good returns, they're nothing truly out of the ordinary.