2009 Leveraging Passive Investors 
Blackstone
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
From March 2009 when the S&P 500 traded at 13x earnings to August 2020 when it peaked at 23x, a passive investor in the market earned 16% per annum. 8 Breaking down the total returns by source from December 2009 to December 2020 shows that 44% of the index’s average total return was from multiple expansion.
The Big Picture
MARCH 14, 2023
RITHOLTZ: So you’re there for 20 years, from 1988 to 2009. So, you know, 2009, what had happened was I was very burnt out. Well, I really thought and I think some of my associates thought that 2009 was a major market low. They wanted to hear a bear story post 2009. Also, how quantitative was it in 2009 and ’10?
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