Every year Barclays publishes the popular Equity Gilt Study which contains a multitude of fascinating charts and data. The following are some of the charts from the report for 2013.

a) UK Asset Returns since 1899

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b) US Asset Returns over many periods

c) The importance of reinvestment

You can download the full report in pdf by click on the image below:

or click to download here.

For the previous year report go here.