Dr. Jeremy Siegel, a professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania says over the last 90 years that 30-day T-bills have returned 3.8%, 20-year Treasuries 5.3% over the period. Large company stocks 11% and small company stocks have returned 12%.

If you followed billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s lead and bought the same stocks he bought you would have beat the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index by 100% over the past three decades.

And according to a new study by Gerald Martin of American University, investors could have reaped a 24.6% annual return if they simply purchased Buffett’s stock picks after he disclosed his holdings in SEC regulatory filings.

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