Costs and Financial Aid. The cost of attendance is the total amount of tuition, fees, room and board, books, supplies, and other estimated school expenses. Financial aid is a combination of grants, loans, scholarships, and work-study employment designed to help offset the total cost of attendance.
One of the major problems for an investor looking at that 10% average return figure and mistakenly expecting to realize a nice yearly profit from investing in the S&P 500 is inflation. Adjusted for inflation, the historical average annual return is only around 7%.
show more For a 45-year old person, what is a reasonable average rate of return on highly diversified investments to expect? They range the spectrum from conservative to aggressive, but I have a specific average rate of return of 7.62% over the past three years. I have been told this is good and I have been told this is...