Why no historical average returns info on the Vanguard site?

Whatyear? · Post by **Whatyear?** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:17 am

Any idea? Is this a year-end thing as they roll over their own data? the only available stat for reurns is Y/E 12-31-09.

bob90245 · Post by **bob90245** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 11:15 am

Probably. I use their data for my annual update of my Pie Shop article. If memory serves, last year, the data became available in the first or second week in January.

Whatyear? · Post by **Whatyear?** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 11:41 am

Thanks, bob90245. I'm looking forward to Chapter 19!

Nancy

grabiner · Post by **grabiner** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:07 pm

You can get the numbers by going to the Growth of $10,000 charts on the individual fund pages; if the December 2007 balance was $16,000 and the December 2008 balance was $12,000, then the fund lost 25% in 2008.

rockH · Post by **rockH** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 12:57 am

yeah i had the same problem. for part of the weekend they had no 3 yr, 5yr, 10 yr return data on the website. they had it fixed by monday a.m. must have been updating the info with year end 2009 numbers.