After tax return
What you actually keep after the tax on gains, dividends, and interest.
Where it is explained in full
What a one percent fee costs over a working life. The fee is small. The share of your ending balance it takes is not. The arithmetic is short and worth seeing once, because after that you cannot unsee it.
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- Cash on cash return
Yearly cash a rental property leaves you divided by the cash you put in.
- Nominal return
Return measured in dollars, before adjusting for inflation.
- Real return
Return after adjusting for inflation. (1 + nominal) ÷ (1 + inflation) − 1.
- Sequence of returns risk
The danger that bad years arrive early in retirement when you are withdrawing.
- Total return
Price change plus dividends or interest.
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