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Percentages vs. Dollars---A Battle For Investors Attention
So do I. I see annualized performance figures talked about constantly in articles. They make it sound like there's not much difference in investment scenario A versus investment scenario B over a 30 year investment horizon, based on the annualized performance figures. When you put real numbers to this and use an Investment Return Calculator on the internet to see the actual result of A versus B, the small annualized difference makes a massive difference in the amount of dollars you will have at the end of the study period in question. But the authors almost hide this fact in their article.
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