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0 pointsthrowaway20371y ago0 comments

    > However, educated index investors typically hold a total market index fund.

Has this outperformed the S&P 500 index in the last 30 years? I doubt it. Also: what percentage of profits from S&P 500 are int'l? Much more than people think. It is already int'l.

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Marsymars1y ago

> Has this outperformed the S&P 500 index in the last 30 years?

This isn’t a particular argument in favour of the S&P 500. Of course some subsets of a total market fund have outperformed the total market over whatever arbitrary time period you want to pick. In the exact same way, various subsets of the S&P 500 have outperformed the S&P 500 over the past 30 years.

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