Expected return on medium-risk S&S ISA?

thor

dunstonh wrote: »

Only on the basis that no ten year period is ever the same and the whole world is changing. The US is no longer the emerging market it was in the 1900s. Western Europe is getting older. Japan is already there. You have india, china and other emerging markets taking over gradually. So, whilst some things are cyclical, the chances of the events of any 10 year period being repeated in the same way in the next 10 year period are highly unlikely.

Highly unlikely yes but it could be actually be worse.

sabretoothtigger

7% after inflation is very high performance. In one year its nothing, two even but once it starts to happen every year then its exceptional.

Over a decade you would double your money with just 7%. More likely average performance would be closer to 1% I think

what would be a reasonable annual return to expect on my investment - 4%?....6%?

1 to 3% after inflation and costs would be reasonable expectation.

The FTSE100 since 1984 had about 3% growth annually I think