How to get 12%+ annual return

ChesterDog

capital0ne wrote: »

...and more importantly have fun.

I do all sorts of things for fun, and some of them do make money.

But my investments have nothing to do with fun, and everything to do with making money.

The best investments (note, 'best', not most profitable at any given moment) actually tend to be pretty dull, and boringly predictable.

Heedtheadvice

Thank goodness there are some sensible posters! :j

Heedtheadvice

Oh and I forgot you could just go back to several years ago when gilts paid that level, low volatility, low risk and safe (ish).

Or even some of those crazy third world countries where assets are worth a day's wage and tomorrow a weeks wage...

What do you mean, next poster, inflation was up even higher? That was not in the brief !!!! The OP did not mention real terms......

BananaRepublic

capital0ne wrote: »

I think you're all missing the point, some more than others.
The point is that investing is all very easy, a myth is spread to make sure people are frightened off by people quoting loads of facts, figures statements like past performance doesn't indicate future performance and so on.
Most of this is just noise - the markets are so in tune they all rise and fall together so you should just go with strategy to achieve your aims, house purchase, retirement, richest man on the street, boasting rights etc, it doesn't matter really
So just pick a few investment vehicles to suit, the more you spread your dosh the richer the brokers get.
So KISS is the method to adopt and ignore the noise - and more importantly have fun.

And don't forget, others have said: " ......investments can produce 12% long term with low risk and low volatility. Historically, such a product does not exist."

Happy days - not dismal now!

Crass and simplistic nonsense. Just to give one counter example, it's all too easy to imvest a large sum, only to find that the markets crash, and it takes years before the value recovers. Or in a worst case, decades. Another counter example worth remembering is Long Tern Capital Management which nearly brought down the financial system. It couldn't fail!

I am of the view that the basics are fairly straight forward, but no-one but a fool would take your blase approach.