Michael Blank, CEO Nighthawk Equity
NEW YORK CITY—Although average stock market returns over 15-year periods can look quite high, Michael Blank, the author of “Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing” (published in 2018 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) and host of the Apartment Building Investing podcast, points out an investor's actual returns could be much lower due to stock market volatility from year to year.
Plus, Blank reminds investors that expenses for managed mutual funds are between .5% and 1.0% and can even go as high as 2.5%. He also points to capital gains taxes and inflation.
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Betsy Kim
Betsy Kim was the bureau chief, East Coast, and New York City reporter for Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. As a lawyer and journalist, Betsy has worked as the director of editorial and content for LexisNexis Lawyers.com, a TV/multi-media journalist for NBC and CBS affiliated TV stations in the Midwest, and an associate producer at Court TV.
