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Investing in stocks offers great opportunities
In the long run, the stock market offers you the best chance for accumulating a comfortable nest egg for retirement, but it is not without its risks.
Given the concern about Social Security, this statement, which you will hear from many different sources, needs some explanation and qualification.
First, it is historically accurate that, the stock market (defined as a broadly diversified portfolio of common stocks) has averaged about a 10 percent return. There is no 20-year period when this portfolio has lost money.
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