{"id":238402,"date":"2010-01-27T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/30-years-of-history-provides-a-simple-rule-of-investing-healthcare-always-outperforms-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-27T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T16:41:00","slug":"30-years-of-history-prove-a-simple-rule-of-investing-healthcare-always-outperforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/238402","title":{"rendered":"30 Years Of History Prove A Simple Rule Of Investing: Healthcare Always Outperforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"float: left; padding: 15px 15px 15px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ntweetmeme_source = 'moneygame'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly';\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/tweetmeme.com\/i\/scripts\/button.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thirty years of performance data make it very clear &#8212; health care always wins. For each of the last three decades, Health Care has consistently outperformed the S&amp;P 500 index. It&#8217;s the only sector to have done so. Meanwhile, the telecom has consistently underperformed the S&amp;P 500 for three decades.<\/p>\n<p>Past performance is no guarantee of future returns, but we wouldn&#8217;t think it crazy to keep betting on health care, even despite the heightened regulatory risks within the current U.S. political environment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b6069410000000000ed2887-550-\/chart.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chart\" width=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, energy has actually been a loser in two out of three decades. As have Materials and Industrials. They basically sucked until China&#8217;s growth hit critical mass from 2000 onwards.<\/p>\n<p>Financials have been a pretty bad to place to put your money, in relative terms, not just in the last ten years, but in the 80&#8217;s as well. Meanwhile Consumer Staples won in two out of three decades.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson learned? Invest in things people need badly on a daily basis, health care and staples, and you should at least do okay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/econompicdata.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/three-decades-of-s-500-sector.html\">See more details over at Econompic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/30-years-of-history-provides-a-simple-rule-of-investing-healthcare-always-outperforms-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obamas-spending-freeze-will-torpedo-the-push-for-a-jobs-bill-infrastructure-and-expanded-healthcare-2010-1\">Obama&#8217;s Spending Freeze Will Torpedo The Push For A Jobs Bill, Infrastructure, And Expanded Healthcare<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/heres-why-you-can-stop-fantasizing-about-healthcare-reform-coming-back-to-life-2010-1\">Here&#8217;s Why You Can Stop Fantasizing About Healthcare Reform Coming Back To Life<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/forget-afghanistan-and-healthcare-obama-is-the-haiti-president-2010-1\">More Than Healthcare Or The Recession, Obama&#8217;s Presidency Will Be Defined By Haiti<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/ECW65bamiCM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years of performance data make it very clear &#8212; health care always wins. For each of the last three decades, Health Care has consistently outperformed the S&amp;P 500 index. It&#8217;s the only sector to have done so. Meanwhile, the telecom has consistently underperformed the S&amp;P 500 for three decades. Past performance is no guarantee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}