Real Return
See whether a holding actually built wealth, after inflation and currency, not just a bigger number.
A position can read up 200% and still buy you less than the day you bought it, once inflation and a weaker currency are counted. Almost every tracker shows only the nominal number, so the gain you are celebrating can be an illusion.
What Real Return does
Dividends and fees included, and every past cash flow converted at the exchange rate on its own date, never price-only or today's rate applied to the past.
Your nominal return, your real return after home inflation, and your return in US dollars after any devaluation, side by side.
One line: it created real wealth, it held its value, or it is a bigger number that buys less.
Good to know
What is a real return?
Your return after inflation and currency moves are stripped out, so it reflects the change in your actual buying power rather than the headline nominal figure.
Which inflation data does it use?
Official monthly consumer price indices for the US, UK, Canada and Nigeria, so high-inflation and devaluation periods are measured accurately rather than smoothed over.
Is this financial advice?
No. It is an analytical mirror showing what happened to your purchasing power. Analysis and education, not advice.
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