Openfolio has found from their 20,000 users that the investment performance and strategy of Teachers makes them great investors. Last year the average investor was up 7.6% while teachers were up 10.2%.
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Why teachers are getting better investment returns than people in finance and tech
When investing app Openfolio was combing through data from 20,000 of its users, one trend in particular jumped out: Teachers were doing really, really well. In fact, educators and education administrators at every level of schooling outperformed 80% of all investors over the course of a year, including investors in the tech and finance industries and in government. Over the course of a year ending in February 2015, Openfolio found that the average investor was up 7.6% ... while on average, teachers had gained 10.2%. Investors in the technology industry were the next-highest at 8.3%, investors working in finance trailed with 6.9%, and government workers came in last, with 3.4%.
