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To determine: The future annual returns over five years.
Introduction:
Arithmetic average return refers to the returns that an investment earns in an average year over different periods. Geometric average return refers to the return per year after compounding the average returns for multiple years.
Person B’s formula helps in deriving a return forecast by combining both the arithmetic and geometric averages. Person B’s formula states that the investors should use a combination of arithmetic and geometric average return for
To determine: The future annual returns over twenty years.
To determine: The future annual returns over thirty years.
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