On 2010-01-03, Joseph Gwinn wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:38:10 -0600, Ignoramus16758
wrote:

My personal investment results from my investments that I had (and
kept throughout) from year 2000, are roughly 90.4% total cumulative
return. This does not include any additional investments that I made
with savings from years after January 2000. Only the investments that
I had in the beginning of the decade, which I still happen to be
carrying.

A 90.4% cumulative return over the period 2000-2009 inclusive (money
almost doubled in 10 years) is equivalent to a compound interest of the
tenth root of 1.94, or 1.0685, or 6.9% growth per annum. That's pretty
solid, but it would be useful to compare this with the aggregate return
of treasury bonds, corrected for inflation.

You actually do not need to correct for inflation.

With 10 year bonds, I would suppose the return would be around 5% or
so, but more taxable. Just making a guess.

i