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Instructions 2/3
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On the following pages, you will be presented with information about hypothetical outcomes relating to the stock market and, in some cases, to your personal employment situation as well.
These outcomes are shown as branches, with each branch indicating a situation that might happen at the end of the year. All situations are equally likely to happen. So, if you see only two outcomes, there is a 50-50 chance of having each occur at the end of the year.
The information about the stock market is for a mutual fund that passively invests in a broad blue-chip stock market index, such as the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones Index. Each branch represents the value of a $1 investment at the end of the year. For example, a value of $1.20 indicates that your investment grew by 20% and a value of $0.90 indicates that you lost 10% of your investment. In this example, both outcomes are equally likely. Below you can see an illustration of how this will look like.