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January 6, 2010, Featured Articles

A Decade to Remember. Or Not.

By Ron Surz   Wed, Jan 06, 2010

The president of PPCA, Inc., and Target Date Solutions looks back at the worst calendar-decade for U.S. stocks since the beginning of the Great Depression, and offers his informed perspective on TDFs.

In April of 2008, I started writing about the miserable stock markets we've experienced in this first decade of the 21st century, suggesting that things might even get worse. They did.

Then they got better in 2009, but not good enough to bring the decade into positive territory. We have just experienced the worst U.S stock market decade in the past eight decades, starting in the 1930s.

In this end-of-year commentary, I examine the past year and the past decade, placing them into perspective relative to the long run history of our stock markets. I discuss both domestic and foreign stock markets. Toward the end, I focus on my specialty, target date funds.

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