By: La Papillion While trying to find out more about the compounded returns of investing in STI ETF today, I managed to crunch some numbers for the adjusted close of STI since inception on 28th Dec, 1987 till now. The data that I used comes from Yahoo! finance. Below is the chart (linear y-axis) of STI from inception till last close, on 2nd May 2008. We can see from the STI chart that there are notable periods of time that it dropped sharply. In 1990, 1998, 2003 and 2007, we can see a visual drop in STI. But I think a more appropriate chart to use is a logarithmic y-axis, so that we can better appreciate the change in % of STI. Read more...