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for the last five or ten years.
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In the case of Burt Malkiel's data,
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more than 11% per year
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and in the case of Roger Ibbotson's data
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between 7% and 8% per year of those returns
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can be explained either by backfill bias or survivorship bias.
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If you subtract those numbers from the reported numbers,
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the returns that the investors
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that were actually investing in the funds
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that are defined as part of the universe at the time are low,
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maybe mid-single digits
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--far less than people would expect for the amount of risk