This decade “good for investors”

Following one of the worst decades on record for stocks with real and nominal returns in negative territory, research from Fidelity International suggests the next 10 years are set to be positive.
 
Comparing the last decade to periods of comparable weakness, in real terms, including the two World Wars, the Great Depression and the inflationary 1970s, Trevor Greetham, Director of Asset Allocation and Manager of Fidelity’s Multi Asset Funds, believes this decade will be one in which stock market returns are in positive territory.
 
He identified that “mean reversion”, the phenomenon whereby a variable quantity tends to return towards its average value over time, despite fluctuations above and below the average value, applied in each case.
 
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