How to protect my assets from inflation? I looked at the the fund offered by my bank and the load is 5%, management fees range from 1-1.75%. I looked at blackrock annual returns for their bonds and stocks funds on offer during the past 5 years and assumed an inflation rate of 3% per year. Using 100k initial investment amount I calculated how much value I'd have after 5 years. Money in mattress: 85873 Money in fund with 5% load, 1.5% management fee, 25% cap gains on nominal returns :86280 Money in fund with no load, 1.5% management fee, 25% cap gains on nominal returns :89506 Money in 1 year CD acts, rolled over, returning 1.5% and 25% cap gains on nominal returns: 90578 Money in fund with no fees (is this possible?) and 25% cap gains on nominal returns: 9447 Is my math off? Is the past 5 years an unreasonable sample? Do people only invest in funds cause there's nothing else to do with their money? Anyway I look at it I'm losing money on my "investment." At best I lose 6% of my assets after 5 years.
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