Return on investment (ROI) is a critical performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment or to compare the efficiency of an investment to other investments.
Most commonly ROI is expressed in terms of annualized return on investment.
For example 10-Year Treasury Bonds provided an annualized return on investment of 5.6% from Jan 2000 until Jan 2009. The total return of 10-Year Treasury Bonds was 63% during this time period.
The S&P 500 index provided an annualized return on investment of 9.6% from Jan 1995 until Jan 2015. The total return of the S&P 500 index was 530% during this time period.
According to Chris Wang, a fee-only advisor, with ALL index annuities you can expect returns of between 1% and 3% moving forward.
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