What percent of investors beat the S&P 500?
Less than 10% of active large-cap fund managers have outperformed the S&P 500 over the last 15 years. The biggest drag on investment returns is unavoidable, but you can minimize it if you're smart. Here's what to look for when choosing a simple investment that can beat the Wall Street pros.
Research: 89% of fund managers fail to beat the market
According to this report, 88.99% of large-cap US funds have underperformed the S&P500 index over ten years. As a whole, 78–97% of actively managed stock funds failed to beat the indexes they were benchmarked against over ten years.
The second highest performing fund in the list was the $395m BlackRock US Growth fund, managed by Phil Ruvinsky and Caroline Bottinelli. The strategy was up 52.68% last year, after a 40.57% loss in 2022. Over a five-year period ending 2023, the strategy was up 92.91% – lagging the S&P 500 index return of 107.21%.
Over the past two decades, up until December 2020, fewer than 10% of actively managed US stock funds were able to outperform the S&P 500. Despite having access to sophisticated strategies, research, and analysis, the vast majority of professional investors cannot manage to outperform the market index.
For example, the last time the average active U.S. stock fund beat the S&P 500 stock index for a full calendar year was in 2009. And over a full 20-year period ending last December, fewer than 10 percent of active U.S. stock funds managed to beat their benchmarks.
If the S&P 500 outperforms its historical average and generates, say, a 12% annual return, you would reach $1 million in 26 years by investing $500 a month.
Ten Year Stock Price Total Return for SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust is calculated as follows: Last Close Price [ 522.20 ] / Adj Prior Close Price [ 155.61 ] (-) 1 (=) Total Return [ 235.6% ] Prior price dividend adjustment factor is 0.84.
S&P 500 10 Year Return is at 174.1%, compared to 171.8% last month and 162.1% last year. This is higher than the long term average of 114.2%.
We took a look at the best performing S&P 500 stocks over the past five years, with the top three performers being NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA), Enphase Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:ENPH), and Enphase Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:ENPH).
$10,000 invested in the S&P 500 at the beginning of 2000 would have grown to $32,527 over 20 years — an average return of 6.07% per year.
What funds does Dave Ramsey invest in?
I put my personal 401(k) and a lot of my mutual fund investing in four types of mutual funds: growth, growth and income, aggressive growth, and international. I personally spread mine in 25% of those four. And I look for mutual funds that have long track records that have outperformed the S&P.
MarketWatch spotlights VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (MOAT), consistently outperforming the S&P 500 by targeting companies with long-term competitive advantages or “economic moats.”
Over the past 40 years, the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF has risen at a compound annual rate of 11.2% (dividends included), which would have turned $1,000 into nearly $70,000 today. That's not too shabby for a completely passive strategy.
Consistently beating the returns of the S&P 500 index is quite difficult for most investors. Here are some of the key reasons why outperforming the index is challenging: The S&P 500 is composed of 500 of the largest, most established companies in the U.S. These tend to be highly efficient and competitive firms.
Emotional Decision-Making: Average investors often make investment decisions based on emotions, influenced by market sentiment or short-term trends. They may buy or sell stocks impulsively without conducting thorough research or considering the long-term prospects of the investment.
In 1980, had you invested a mere $1,000 in what went on to become the top-performing stock of S&P 500, then you would be sitting on a cool $1.2 million today.
Assuming an average annual return rate of about 10% (a typical historical average), a $10,000 investment in the S&P 500 could potentially grow to approximately $25,937 over 10 years.
We saw in the previous section that investing in the S&P 500 has historically allowed investors to double their money about every six or seven years. Your initial $1,000 investment will grow to $2,000 by year 7, $4,000 by year 14, and $6,000 by year 18.
Once you have $1 million in assets, you can look seriously at living entirely off the returns of a portfolio. After all, the S&P 500 alone averages 10% returns per year. Setting aside taxes and down-year investment portfolio management, a $1 million index fund could provide $100,000 annually.
1: Simply let compounding work its magic. Over the long haul, the stock market has provided average annual total returns somewhere in the neighborhood of 10%. If the future ends up like the past, $100,000 would grow into $1 million in just over 24 years from compounding alone.
How much money do I need to invest to make $3000 a month?
Imagine you wish to amass $3000 monthly from your investments, amounting to $36,000 annually. If you park your funds in a savings account offering a 2% annual interest rate, you'd need to inject roughly $1.8 million into the account.
The average yearly return of the S&P 500 is 10.54% over the last 100 years, as of the end of December 2023. This assumes dividends are reinvested.
Basic Info. S&P 500 3 Year Return is at 33.72%, compared to 30.46% last month and 34.39% last year. This is higher than the long term average of 23.22%. The S&P 500 3 Year Return is the investment return received for a 3 year period, excluding dividends, when holding the S&P 500 index.
S&P 500 5 Year Return is at 83.02%, compared to 79.20% last month and 46.29% last year. This is higher than the long term average of 45.06%. The S&P 500 5 Year Return is the investment return received for a 5 year period, excluding dividends, when holding the S&P 500 index.
One of those tools is known as the Rule 72. For example, let's say you have saved $50,000 and your 401(k) holdings historically has a rate of return of 8%. 72 divided by 8 equals 9 years until your investment is estimated to double to $100,000.
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