Total return is price change plus dividend income.
There are still six months to go in 2000, of course. Real estate investment trust shares rocketed. But other investment pros are less sanguine. As the stories in this section point out, autopilot investing may have worked fine in the last five years. If that's what the first half of this year was about, it may be more critical than it has been in many years to consider your overall investment strategy, your asset allocation, your return expectations, and whether your portfolio can withstand whatever new shocks may lie ahead.