# Professor Aswath Damodaran's research on stock market returns is referenced

1 Faculty News May 30, 2017 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031096.jpg?itok=Ru-h3oAU)>

Excerpt from [NASDAQ](http://www.nasdaq.com/article/3-ways-to-invest-like-a-millionaire-cm795987) -- "From 2007 to 2016, Standard & Poor's 500-stock index delivered an average annual total return of 8.7%, according to [Aswath Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran) of New York University's Stern School of Business."

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