The article is from November last year but since then the ASX is up 250 points.Just saying. Property v shares: time to change the conversation?
At your next barbecue will your friends and neighbours be boasting about how much money they've made in property, or shares?
Still likely the former, but maybe, and increasingly so I would argue (and hope), the latter.
For the first time in six months the annual total return from the sharemarket has topped the return from property. By itself this is not so significant – since May of 2006, the 12-month return from shares has beaten property almost exactly half of the time, as you can see from the chart.
