Today, I’d like to revisit a key point from my November blog post—the market’s run to end the year—and then cap it off with some historical election year data. Here, we will be explicitly looking at historical S&P 500 data since 1957 or at data prior to 1957. Before 1957, the index as we know it today was called the S&P 90. In 1957, it was updated to 500 names that better reflected the market. If you’d like to learn more about the evolution of the S&P Index, check out this Reuters article on key dates and milestones in the S&P 500’s history. S&P 500 and the 20 Percent Return In my last post, I noted the quarterly ... (full story)