A.D. 2012 - December 2023.
In 12 years, the S&P 500 index has risen by 275%, with an annualized return of 1161%, which means that if you invested 10,000 yuan in the S&P 500 index** in 2012, you can get 37,380 yuan with principal and profit by the end of 2023.
In 12 years, China's CSI 300 Index has risen by 86 percent (including dividend reinvestment).93% with an annualized return of 553%, if you invest 10,000 CSI 300 Index in 2012**, as of December 18, 2023, you can only get 19,100 yuan.
The difference is 18,280 yuan!
Reading the news this morning, I saw a set of data.
More and more Americans are investing directly in individuals**. Direct shareholding increased from 15% in 2019 to 21% in 2022, the largest increase since the survey began in 1989.
In 2022, about 58% of U.S. households have**. This is up from 53% in 2019.
The U.S. has 3300 million people, 21% of the proportion is 69 million shareholders.
According to China's population of 1.4 billion, there are 200 million shareholders, and the proportion of 14% is not low
Let's take a comparative look at the GDP of China and the United States from 2012 to 2023 (unit: RMB):
Let's compare the CSI 300 index with the S&P 500 index: the purple line in the chart is the US S&P 500 index!
200 million shareholders of A shares, make persistent efforts to meet a better future!
If we have firm long-term investment expectations, short-term volatility is meaningless to us unless they give us the opportunity to add to our holdings at a cheaper price.