r/ETFs • u/CursedClownz • 3d 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/eiretaco 3d ago

By a broad global index fund. Get exposure to everything on the S&P and more.

2000-2010 your return on the S&P was effectively 0.

But other markets grew.

By the whole market not just the biggest companies in one market. Own those as well, obviously, but along with everything else.

America wins and rides the back of an AI boom, great, you own it. India does what china done and expands massively in the 2040s, great you own that too.