retail investor: Apr 09, 2014 via - , according to Market Watch. The 2014 edition of shows a reversal of the improvement in investor decision making, capping off the painfully slow improvement of the last three decades. The gap in 20 year returns of 10.65 percentage points in 1998 has narrowed to 4.20 in 2013. The current gap is the result of a 20 year return of 9.22% for the SaP 500 compared to the average investor return of 5.02%. s annual Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior celebrates its twentieth edition of measuring the shortfall in retail investor real returns. Each year, the report monitors the gap between leading indicators of investment performance and what mutual fund investors actually earn. The report has focused on the fact that in addition to availability and need for cash, the major cause of the shortfall has been withdrawing from investments at low points and buying at market highs.
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