I have written about historical annual returns of the Australian equity markets a few times before. Recently I came across a chart showing the nominal total returns of Australian stocks from 1900 to 2023. According to this chart, the Arithmetic Mean Nominal Total Return was 11.7% per year which is very good. In the past 124 years, Aussie stocks have yielded a positive return 78% of the time. The worst year in terms of decline was in 2008 during the GFC when they crashed by over 40% as shown in the chart below:

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Source: Owen Analytics via Morningstar, Australia

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