Folks, do you see these returns? That was from 1979 to 1996, 17 years. And the good times went on another 3 years too.
These returns are part of the history of total returns in the markets. Yet, you're never going to see this again. Nearly 17% annually for stocks and almost 11% for bonds.
Nope. Those days are gone.
Ed McQuarrie talks the REAL History of Stocks and Bond performance.
https://www.morningstar.com/portfolios/how-use-commodities-your-portfolio?utm_source=eloqua&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FundSpy&utm_content=None_61962&utm_id=32070
How Commodities funds can help diversification with Stocks and Bonds and usually not correlated to either
https://www.morningstar.com/funds/most-stunning-fact-about-vanguards-etf-flows-2
This article shows people are pulling money out of mutual funds and putting it into index funds an example is VOO. Also Vanguard Primecap and Core fund opened the fund due to them both because of money being pulled out. INDEX ETF's way to go tax efficient and low expenses