[toomuchtodo]

Certainly, you have done well over the last ~18-24 months if you have exposure to the AI investment exuberance (VOO), just as you did well if you had exposure to certain securities during ZIRP or the pandemic. "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."

[andsoitis]

Since its September 2010 inception, VOO is up +816% in nominal total return, or +15.1%/yr annualized.

The 10-year total return is 327%, and the 15-year average annual return is 14.4%.

Hard to beat.

[toomuchtodo]

Which you only know in hindsight, in the context of this performance benchmark. In that time frame, we had zero interest rate policy, a global pandemic, and now an AI bubble. "Will the conditions or events that led to my historical returns continue?" is a material component of forward looking exposure decisioning when investing.