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Minimum period for investing All world Global trackers?

mears1 · 2022-03-06 15:21:00

Is 12 years of investing in the same (buy and hold) 'all world' tracker long enough, given the turmoil, at the moment?

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Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite

8 March 2022 at 11:23AM

12 years is the minium period of time that an investor has needed in the past to show a positive return on their investment. This allows for the fact that all income is reinvested as received. Markets do rise and fall year to year. There's never been just linear upward movement. The dips being overlooked when the oft quoted historical data is used. Corrections are far from uncommon.

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