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Old 10-20-2006, 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Wodnek View Post
I have been it in for about 12 years. In that time it has almost trippled. I am a buy hold type of investor though.
In the last 10 years, the fund has averaged about a 5% return, which means your money would double in a little over 14 years, compounded.

As a buy and hold investor, you would have done significantly better if you had simply bought the passive stock market index.
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