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Funds performance over decades?

Is there anywhere you can get a chart with the performance of funds over, say, 30 or 80 years?

It would be an excellent tool to see risk in practice.

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  • Linton
    Linton Posts: 18,350 Forumite
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    Very few funds have been around for that length of time, perhaps some of the Investment Trusts could be worth looking at. You can easily get 10 year data from Trustnet, and using the charting facility you can get data for specific funds going back 20 years if not more.
  • jimjames
    jimjames Posts: 18,902 Forumite
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    edited 25 March 2014 at 12:49PM
    F&C investment trust goes back to 1868. As Linton says most funds only have a history of 10-20 years.

    The F&C website only shows 20 year performance but that's still a good way to see risk

    http://online.morningstarir.com/ir/frcl/ir.jsp?page=share-price-chart

    There have been 2 major dips since 1994 but the share price is still more than double what it was then and that takes no account of dividends.
    Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.
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