Alyssa Huber answered 11/4/2011 What Is The Historical Real Return On Long-term Government Bonds? Or simply follow the Fisher equation (1 + R) = (1 + r)(1 + h)
Alyssa Huber answered 11/4/2011 What Is The Historical Real Return On Long-term Government Bonds? On Long Terms Corporate Bonds? Take the Arithmetic mean (average) for each investment type and subtract the arithmetic mean (average) of the inflation rate. I hope that helps, I had the same homework problem.