Roger G. Ibbotson, PhD, and Laurence B. Siegel join Lotta Moberg, PhD, CFA, to discuss Exponential Wealth: Centuries of Stock and Bond Returns, a forthcoming CFA Institute Research Foundation book. Marking the 50th anniversary of Ibbotson’s landmark research on stocks, bonds, bills, and inflation, the conversation examines what more than 100 years of market data reveal about long-term wealth creation. Ibbotson and Siegel explore the power of compounding, the importance of total returns and dividend reinvestment, the relationship between market returns and economic growth, and how investors should interpret a century of evidence on stocks, bonds, and inflation.
Exponential Wealth is a 21-chapter compendium of data, essays, and insights on stock and bond markets. The book is organized into four sections covering stock and bond return history, the past 100 years in US markets, centuries of US and global returns, and forecasts for the future. Topics include index construction, equity risk premiums, bubbles and crashes, commodities, global market history, and forecasting.
Contributing authors include David Chambers, Peng Chen, Thomas Coleman, Fernando de la Luz Reyes, Elroy Dimson, William N. Goetzmann, James Harrington, Thomas Idzorek, Antti Ilmanen, Rajkumar Janardanan, Paul Kaplan, Tadaaki Komatsubara, Otto Manninen, Paul Marsh, Edward McQuarrie, Carla Nunes, Xiao Qiao, Paul Rintamäki, Geert Rouwenhorst, Mike Staunton, Bryan Taylor, and James Tyler.
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