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Jeremy Grantham, an investor credited with predicting the 2000 and 2008 downturns, told CNBC on Thursday that investors should get inured to lackluster returns in the stock market for the next two decades, after a century of handsome gains. “In the last 100 years, we're used to delivering perhaps 6%,” but the U.S. market will be delivering real returns of about 2% or 3% on average over next 20 years, the value investor and co-founder of Boston-based asset manager GMO told CNBC in a rare interview. Over the past five years, the S&P 500 index (SPX) has produced a compound annual growth rate of 8.1%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) has boasted a CAGR of 9.1%, while the Nasdaq Composite Index (COMP) has registered a compound return of 11.4% over the same period, according to FactSet data.