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5 or more % less than S&P 500 5 4.50%
3 to 4% less 10 9.01%
1 to 2% less 13 11.71%
Same as S&P 500 (11.7%) 17 15.32%
1 to 2% better than S&P 500 26 23.42%
3 to 5% better 23 20.72%
6 to 10% better 9 8.11%
11 to 20% better 6 5.41%
21% or more better 2 1.80%
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Old 11-29-2006, 12:30 PM   #1
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As of today the S&P 500 is up 11.7%. How did you do?

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Your YTD is 9%. So you're 2.7% less than S&P 500. Choose "3 to 4% less"
Your YTD is 20%. So you're 8.3% better than S&P 500. Choose "6 to 10% better"

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Lead sled dog is target retirementv 2015 at 9.5%

heh heh heh - too lazy to count up the individual stocks.
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Old 11-29-2006, 01:15 PM   #3
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As of today the S&P 500 is up 11.7%. How did you do?

Examples:

Your YTD is 9%. So you're 2.7% less than S&P 500. Choose "3 to 4% less"
Your YTD is 20%. So you're 8.3% better than S&P 500. Choose "6 to 10% better"

This is not a contest.
Do you include you house as part of the invesments? how about bonds/fixed income?
Is "Investments" = net worth?
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Old 11-29-2006, 01:19 PM   #4
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Vanguard's SP 500 fund produced 12.87% returns year to date (as of 11/28/06 close of business). I figure I came in right around the same returns based on my last calculation on 10/16/06.
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Old 11-29-2006, 01:24 PM   #5
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My YTD is 11.9%...so +0.2
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Old 11-29-2006, 01:28 PM   #6
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Do you include you house as part of the invesments? how about bonds/fixed income?
Is "Investments" = net worth?
I don't count my house as an investment.

I would cound bonds/fixed income as investment.

Net worth ?= Investment: If you prefer to, fine. For me, my NW includes my house, but my investment does not.
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You guy do pretty good. You all must be 100% (or more) invested in stocks.
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Old 11-29-2006, 01:48 PM   #8
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You guy do pretty good. You all must be 100% (or more) invested in stocks.
Just a tad over 80-81% stocks.
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Just a tad over 80-81% stocks.
Did you count the 19% not in stocks as part of the calculation?
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Old 11-29-2006, 01:52 PM   #10
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Trailing the S&P badly this year, but have trounced the TOPIX ytd, which is a better bogey for me anyway.
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Old 11-29-2006, 02:03 PM   #11
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You guy do pretty good. You all must be 100% (or more) invested in stocks.
Hmm, bonds did pretty well, especially junk. Commodities were no slouch. EAFE is up some 20% YTD. REITs went to the moon. Foreign bonds did well, too.
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My equities gave me 10.98% ROI, but when averaged in with my non-equity investments (not including home), my overall ROI was 8.41%.
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Once again, you have to tell us how you determined your YTD return (i.e. which software package) and what investments you included and what you didn't include.

I use MSMoney. It has a report that gives YTD performance, but even that can be skewed. It also have a "Current Year" time frame. Since we haven't reached 12/31/2006 yet, YTD is not the same as "Current Year".

We can't seem to agree what the total return is of the S&P500 today with dividends reinvested, so ....
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Once again, you have to tell us how you determined your YTD return (i.e. which software package) and what investments you included and what you didn't include.

I use MSMoney. It has a report that gives YTD performance, but even that can be skewed. It also have a "Current Year" time frame. Since we haven't reached 12/31/2006 yet, YTD is not the same as "Current Year".

We can't seem to agree what the total return is of the S&P500 today with dividends reinvested, so ....
Very true. And I would guess the majority of answers here are a best-guess estimate, not a precise scientific calculation.

For example, if somebody held cash and invested that cash immediately before the market surged a couple of months ago, that person cannot use the reported YTD return on that investment as his own YTD return.

Personal ROI is a more complicated calculation when personal funds are added and subtracted from investments and transfers are made between various investments.
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YTD is almost 18% despite a bond/cash allocation of 40%. I think most of the return comes from REIT, International explorer, Europe, and emerging market. Small cap value and large cap value have done well also. Commodity (PCRIX) returns 7.09% (purchased in 3/06).
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Very true. And I would guess the majority of answers here are a best-guess estimate, not a precise scientific calculation.
What's wrong with taking your balance on 1/1/06 and comparing it to what you have now minus expenses if any?

Based on the above I'm up 9.75% on a 50/50 portfolio. The 50% equities includes 15% foreign.
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Did you count the 19% not in stocks as part of the calculation?
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Old 11-29-2006, 05:19 PM   #18
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My portfolio is pretty conservative.....about 50% equities. I'm showing 9.19% on a weighted average spreadsheet. This includes equities, bonds, and MM.
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ira 11.61% 401k 11.50% taxable(mostly individual stocks) 19.68%
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I took the easy way out. Vanguard calculates my return for the trailing year, since 10/31/06. 23%. yay!!!

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