Circumstance and timing set every investor on a slightly different path. From the day you begin to invest to the day you retire, you will typically have 30-35 years to work towards gathering and growing your assets. That’s the period of return we want you to focus on. Any historical charts and graphs that point to 20-year average returns, or 89-year market history charts, are, essentially, irrelevant. It’s the next 10-30 years, what we do in them–and what happens in them—that count.