annual return

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This assumes a retirement age of 65, a starting contribution rate of $83 per month, actual market returns since 2011, and the S&P 500’s historical average 10% annual return into the future.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026

If you had invested $700 each month and earned an average 7% annual return, you could also have built a six-figure nest egg at 74.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

For the previous 10-year period, the S&P 500’s average annual return was 7.2%.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

The total annual return of the S&P 500 was negative for 13 of the past 60 years.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

These are grounds of hope for others; for ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis