Real Estate ETFs, the S&P 500, and the Great Cosmic Joke

Not bad, right? You didn’t lose money, which is more than I can say for most people who try their luck at love or happiness. But let’s not kid ourselves-this isn’t exactly a ticker-tape parade of success. If you’d put that same $1,000 into an S&P 500 index fund like the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO), you’d be sitting pretty with $3,900. Life is unfair, isn’t it? So it goes.






