Our typical investor should be someone who is more comfortable with a narrower range of returns over time.

Of course, the company did lose 72 cents a share, which might make a typical investor hesitant to back up the truck.

"Our typical investor is probably a little more long-term oriented than a lot of no-load funds," he said.

For a typical investor, most experts recommend only a small direct exposure to commodities, about 5 percent to 10 percent.

The long run is much longer than the typical investor's attention span.

The professors compared the typical investor to a person standing in the middle of a street.

For the typical investor those shares, based on yesterday's closing price of $4.30, would be worth $825.6 million.

Put another way, the typical investor is more afraid of losses than excited about profits.

But the typical investor in Nasdaq earned only 4.3 percent over this period.

He's probably the most revered fund manager in Britain today - and he's far from your typical green investor.