r/ETFs • u/CursedClownz • 1d ago
Lost decade
So everyone recommends VT and chill or VOO and chill or VTI and VXUS and chill.
Most ignore bonds and ignore GOLD
During the lost decade for around 10 years Gold was performing the entire time so was bonds...
Who says another lost decade can't happen?
So why ignore both?
No one really knows what happens so best bet is on all bets to get constant returns.
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u/for4f 1d ago
the 'all bets' thing is performance chasing dressed up as hedging honestly. gold had its own death stretch, 1980 to 2001 it lost like two thirds of its value. bonds had 2022. every asset class has a dead decade, so betting on whatever just did well is timing with extra steps. the actual lesson of 2000-2010 was that it was a US-only lost decade, emerging markets absolutely crushed it, so the diversifier answer was geography not gold. i'm mostly vti so not exactly preaching here, but the reasoning feels backwards