What If the Stock Market Was a Bond?

Here’s an update to one of my more off-the-wall ideas. I took the data for the total return for the Wilshire 5000 going back 40 years. I wanted to see what that return would look like in “bond form.”

Weird, no? Let me explain: I took the daily changes for the Wilshire 5000 and applied them to a hypothetical consol bond (meaning one that never matures).

I had to assume a starting yield for the first data point in 1971, so there was some guesswork on my part. While this “bond” doesn’t really exist, this table below shows exactly what the stock market really did.

Posted by on March 10th, 2011 at 10:21 am


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