Know Your Investment Returns

The Dow is down around 34% since mid-May. Or is it? Sometimes, performance is largely in the eye of the beholder.

With all of the different ways to measure rates of return, the numbers you read in investment prospectuses and papers might not mean as much as you would think. So, want to know how to measure your investment performance objectively? Read on.

The Problem With Measuring Returns

It's hard not to take note of all the news articles that have broken down the trillions of dollars that the country has lost that was right there, on our collective investment account statement, just a few months ago. ...