5 balanced funds have managed to beat the S&P 500 in the past decade
Balanced funds can make a nice proxy for the virtues of a diversified portfolio.
The 2007-2009 bear market started Oct. 9, 2007 and, in the course of 356 miserable trading days, clawed the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index to a 57% loss.
Thanks to that soul-searing bear market, the S&P has averaged a 7.74% annual total return in the past decade, substantially below the average
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