Buffett recently gave an interview discussing how if he would have invested the first money he had $114.75 in 1942 in the S&P 500 and reinvested the dividends, he would now have $400,000. That is a nice way to sell the stock market to people but I really disagree with Buffett and on what he is selling.
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Here are my points: Nobody has a 75 year investment horizon Buffett’s goal in life was just to accumulate capital and be the best investor in the world, he achieved it but I am sure that isn’t the goal of 99.9% of us. We want our money to work for us so that we can spend the extra money and have a better life or retirement thanks to our investments, 70 years is a bit too much.
Therefore, we have to see what are the best risk reward investments for a 20 or even shorter investment horizon. But let’s see how Buffett’s advice to invest in the S&P 500, something he never did, holds over shorter periods of time? 2) Shorter term investing – shorter than 75 years Let’s look at the distribution of 10 years returns over the last 139 years of S&P 500 available data.
