What are you up YTD? [Year To Date]

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so far this year i am up 0%.
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Finished the year up 16%. Profited from the decline in long term interest rates in the first half of the year, but gave back some gains in the fourth quarter after buying oil and the Japanese yen. I'm going into 2015 with an allocation that's roughly 20% precious metals, 20% WTI and oil majors, 30% equities (mostly EM), 15% Japanese yen, 15% junk bonds. I think we will see rates rise this year across the curve, and inflation expectations should rise as well. Longer term, I expect a serious bout of stagflation.
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How do you see one's YTD in vanguard.com?

I guess I need to wait as vanguard only shows YTD up to Nov 30th.
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I am very proud to be able to give this answer: I have no idea. :happy
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70/10/20 sitting on a lot of cash, need to get it into bonds but just waiting a few to let things sort out. Want to be 70/30 or so. I am up 8.9% so vanguard says.
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47% US Stocks
19% Intl Stocks
21% Bonds
13% Cash

XIRR for 2014 = 6.7%

A pretty good year.
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TheTimeLord wrote:The change in value of my investment holdings was +15.11% in 2014. This includes contributions made in 2014.
Are you from Beardstown, Illinois?
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ruralavalon wrote:
TheTimeLord wrote:The change in value of my investment holdings was +15.11% in 2014. This includes contributions made in 2014.
Are you from Beardstown, Illinois?
hahaha
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How does morningstar calculate the rate of return ? They report that I'm up 10.42% for the year. But here are my holdings:

VTI: +10.95%
VXUS: -6.86%
VCE: +9.45%
VNQ: +24.83%

Something doesn't seem right.
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Mine is 0.0%, according to my Fidelity account this morning.
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ruralavalon wrote:
TheTimeLord wrote:The change in value of my investment holdings was +15.11% in 2014. This includes contributions made in 2014.
Are you from Beardstown, Illinois?
Nope, that is why I said change in value instead of rate of return and specified that the percentage included contributions. Perhaps I need to work on a way to be clearer in my communications.
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I'm up .24% year to date with a projected year end gain of 63%. :P
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Using the wiki:Calculating personal returns spreadsheet:

PORTFOLIO RETURN (time-weighted returns, comparable returns)

Portfolio return as of 12-31-2014
YTD 8.92%
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I added a lot more shares across my various accounts and have no idea what my total return was for 2014!
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According to vanguard my return for the year with my three fund portfolio is 6.8%. That's with a 75/25 stock to bond ratio. Also have 30% of stock in international.

Honestly I expected it to be a bit higher since my YTD at 11/30/14 was 9.6%. December must have been pretty bad for three fund portfolios with my ratios.
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7.1% not counting contributions
11.1% with contributions

45% Large Cap US Stocks
15% Small/Mid Cap
20% International
20% Bonds
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Stocks: 67%
Bonds: 33% (need to rebalance)
Up: 7.74%

Of course, since the original post says nothing about which method to use to calculate the returns, I'm not really sure what our answers really tell us apart from everybody is up.
The 7.74% above is calculated using the spreadsheet from the Bogleheads Wiki on "Calculating personal returns".
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I was up only 4.8% with a portfolio that was about 37% equities. Calculated from Jan 1, 2014 to Jan 1, 2015. I am neither in accumulation stage nor the withdrawal stage since our living expenses are covered by SS and a small pension. I did take some taxable dividends but accounted for those.
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cusetownusa wrote:. Also have 30% of stock in international.

Honestly I expected it to be a bit higher since my YTD at 11/30/14 was 9.6%. December must have been pretty bad for three fund portfolios with my ratios.
It was the international stock, that was the biggest loser by far. It lost 8% in December and 13% from September; only 4.5% for the year though.
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Uncle Pennybags wrote:
cusetownusa wrote:. Also have 30% of stock in international.

Honestly I expected it to be a bit higher since my YTD at 11/30/14 was 9.6%. December must have been pretty bad for three fund portfolios with my ratios.
It was the international stock, that was the biggest loser by far. It lost 8% in December and 13% from September; only 4.5% for the year though.
Makes sense...most of my new contributions have been going to my international fund...hopefully one day my international fund will be the one doing the heavy lifting.
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TheTimeLord wrote:
ruralavalon wrote:
TheTimeLord wrote:The change in value of my investment holdings was +15.11% in 2014. This includes contributions made in 2014.
Are you from Beardstown, Illinois?
Nope, that is why I said change in value instead of rate of return and specified that the percentage included contributions. Perhaps I need to work on a way to be clearer in my communications.
I think you were perfectly clear, and on this forum, I think the number you presented is more important when reflecting upon your goals. My rate of return was almost completely a product of my chosen asset allocation; what I was up YTD (which is actually what the title of this thread asked) was reflective of my progress towards retirement.

Incidentally, I was up 24.2% in 2014. My rate of return was far lower (6-7%), but why should I care?
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You shouldn`t be watching this so regularly as it will get you emotionally charged to do something you will be sorry for.
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My 1st quarter review puts me up 1.25%. 85/15 stocks to bonds
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+2.24% for Q1 2015, 80/20 allocation.
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Total return for first quarter is +2.14%
60% stocks, 40% bonds.

I have more international equities than domestic, and my bonds tilt to high-yield, muni and stable value - no treasuries.

Also including the first 2 days of April, up 2.78% ;)
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kenyan wrote: I think you were perfectly clear, and on this forum, I think the number you presented is more important when reflecting upon your goals. My rate of return was almost completely a product of my chosen asset allocation; what I was up YTD (which is actually what the title of this thread asked) was reflective of my progress towards retirement.
It's not really clear to me that OP is asking for increase in asset balance, as opposed to total return.

Anyone starting from scratch would have an infinite % growth in assets (unless their total return was -100%), so IMO, that is not a very interesting number to look at.

Increase in asset balance is the sum of your contributions, withdrawals, and return, whether positive or negative.
Of course, the rate of contributions and withdrawals is completely under your control, and therefore completely predictable.
The rate of return is however, unpredictable. So, IMO that's the more interesting number.
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Personal Return 10.90%
1 Month -0.34%
3 Month 2.72%
YTD 2.72%
1 Year 7.16%
3 Year 8.62%
5 Year -
10 Year -

60/40
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1st quarter return was 1.44%

100 % Wellesley
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Who said I'm up?
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YTD: 3.23%

Due to my brilliant half equities international position 8-) (just don't look at 2014)
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50/50 asset allocation, retired, age 69.

Up 3.06% YTD per Morningstar portfolio manager.

Best so far are Total International and REIT index funds.
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59, Retired.

55/35/15

2.4%

International is 8% of total portfolio.
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YTD +2.68%
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3.90 %
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Glad to see this thread still going! I will check my YTD balance when the US total stock index (VTI) is back around $110. :D
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70/30 and rough calculation of equity portion only (total today versus total on 31 Dec - no new money added and no dividends reinvested) = 5.8%
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I have no clue. We stop monitoring years ago since leaving the stock picking world.
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2.6% 1st quarter, 75/25 port.
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Here are some YTD/1 year numbers from Vanguard as of 4/2/2015.

Total Stock Market (VTI): 1.78%/12.34%
Mid Cap (VO): 4.46%/14.90%
Small Cap (VB): 4.98%/9.82%
S&p 500 (VOO): 0.91%/12.71%
FTSE All-World Ex-US (VXUS): 6.09%/-0.36%
Emerging Market (VWO): 5.31%/3.35%
Total Bond (BND): 1.84%/5.63%
Intermediate Bond (BIV): 2.58%/7.02%
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This is what Vanguard lists under my Personal Performance tab:

Beginning balance: $14,623.88
Purchases & withdrawals: $3,364.99
Investment returns: $361.53

Investment return/Beginning balance = 2.4% return
Investment return/Ending balance = 2.0% return
Investment return/Middle balance = 2.2% return

Don't know how you wanna calculate it. But my return is somewhere in the 2.0-2.4% range YTD.
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The very excellent spreadsheet tool I took from someone on this board (who didn't seem to embed their name in the sheets I have used) tells me:

3.2% first quarter 2015 I believe that more than the 3.3% the kludgy spreadsheet I originally put together is telling me.

55% stocks. of which 50% international. Small-value and small tilt in domestic and international.
domestic x-ray
11 11 11
13 10 6
19 14 5

international x-ray
13 12 12
14 11 14
7 8 8

Bonds are 53% intermediate treasuries, 28% TIAA TRAD, 19% individual 10-year TIPS
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Update 1Q2015

Equity: 72% (36% MSCI world, 34% Eurostoxx 600, 2% MSCI Emerging Markets)
Bonds: 28% (26% Short Euro Gov., 2% Global Gov.)

Up 15.61% on the portfolio return, calculated with the spreadsheet from the BH wiki.
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80/20 with Fidelity - +2.91%
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2015---+1.24%
From conservative investments containing 65.9% Wellesley, 10.2% Short term investment grade, 20.2% I Bonds and 3.7% Cds.
This is calculated ongoing by my Money 2002.
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Passive investments (index funds, bonds, etc): 1.98%
Play-money hand-picked tech stocks: 6.00%
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Christine_NM wrote:Stocks: 49%
Bonds: 51%
Up: 7.2%
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Can you tell me what funds are getting you that type of return?

I am:
Stocks 24%
Bonds 41%
Cash 35%
YTD 1.13%

I am Wellesley and 2 Vanguard Target Funds.
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Shabber wrote:
Christine_NM wrote:Stocks: 49%
Bonds: 51%
Up: 7.2%
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Can you tell me what funds are getting you that type of return?

I am:
Stocks 24%
Bonds 41%
Cash 35%
YTD 1.13%

I am Wellesley and 2 Vanguard Target Funds.
Check the date of the post you are replying to. It was in 2014 .
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+7% so far in 2015

Variable asset allocation. Currently:

20% EM equities
30% long term Treasuries
10% oil
15% precious metals
25% REITs
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3.9% YTD

40% Large Cap
20% Bonds
20% Small/Mid cap
20% International

All index funds.
Avg. expense ratio: 0.08%
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Shorter term stock trading account: 12.10% YTD
Long term stock portfolio: 15.62% YTD
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