Madsinger monthly reports

 are a monthly series of performance data reports for a selected group of fund portfolios and fund strategies, tracked by forum member madsinger. The reports include monthly, year-to-date, and multiple time period compound returns.

Portfolios
The monthly returns reports include  year-to-date  return, and annualized returns (15 years, 10 years, 5 years, and  3 years). Portfolios break down into four categories, roughly corresponding to 100/0, 80/20, 60/40, 40/60 stock/bond portfolios, sorted by 10 year total return.


 * The three fund portfolio holds a 50/30/20 Total Stock/Total Int'l/Total Bond fund allocation (see figure).
 * The slice & dice portfolio holds 10% each in large blend (VFINX), large value (VIVAX), small blend (NAESX), small value (VISVX), and real estate (VGSIX); 25% international blend (VGTSX), 5% small international (VINEX); and 20% intermediate bond (VBMFX) (see figure).
 * The coffeehouse portfolio is a 60/40 allocation described at The Coffeehouse Investor (see figure).
 * The Newsletter portfolios are from a newsletter following Vanguard funds.
 * William Bernstein's "Sheltered Sam" is an all stock portfolio which is 20% large blend (VFINX), 25% large value (VIVAX), 5% small blend (NAESX), 15% small value (VISVX), 10% real estate (VGSIX), 3% precious metals equity (VGPMX), 5% each European stock (VEURX), Pacific stock (VPACX), Emerging market stock (VEIEX), and 7% international value (VTRIX) (see figure).
 * The madsinger portfolio is a real-world portfolio, roughly 50/6/11/33 stock/REIT/gold/bond.

Returns for benchmark funds include the Vanguard S&P 500 index fund, the  Vanguard LifeStrategy Growth, Moderate Growth, and Conservative Growth funds. Active balanced funds, such as Vanguard Wellington, Vanguard Wellesley, and Vanguard Star are also included. A "hot hands" strategy is also tracked.

2014 reports
The monthly 2014 returns reports include year-to-date  return, and annualized returns since 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2012 (15 years, 10 years, 5 years, and  3 years).

2013 reports
The monthly 2013 returns reports include year-to-date  return, and annualized returns since 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2011 (15 years, 10 years, 5 years, and  3 years).

2012 reports
The monthly 2012 returns reports include year-to-date  return, and annualized returns since 1998, 2003, 2009 and 2010 (15 years, 10 years, 5 years, and  3 years).

2011 reports
The monthly 2011 returns reports include year-to-date  return, and annualized returns since 1997, 2002, 2008 and 2009 (15 years, 10 years, 5 years, and  3 years).

2010 reports
The monthly 2010 returns reports include year-to-date  return, and annualized returns since 1996, 2001, 2007 and 2008 (15 years, 10 years, 5 years, and  3 years).

2009 reports
The monthly 2009 returns reports include year-to-date  return, and annualized returns since 1995, 2000, 2006 and 2007 (15 years, 10 years, 5 years, and  3 years).

2008 reports
The monthly 2008 returns reports include year-to-date  return, and  annualized returns since 1994, 1999, 2005 and 2008 (15 years, 10 years, 5 years, and  3 years). Beginning in January 2008, the "Hot Hands" fund, and the Newsletter "Growth Index" portfolio were added to the group of tracked portfolios and strategies.

2007 reports
The monthly 2007 returns reports include year-to-date  return, and  annualized returns since 1993, 1998, 2004 and 2007 (15 years, 10 years, 5 years, and  3 years). In October 2007 the reports began being reported in the bogleheads.org. forum. Prior reports (from September 2007 back to January 2005) were posted on the Morningstar Diehards forum.

2006 reports
The monthly 2006 returns reports include year-to-date  return, and annualized returns since 1992, 1997, 2003 and 2006 (15 years, 10 years, 5 years, and  3 years).

2005 reports
The monthly 2005 returns reports include year-to-date  return, and annualized returns since 1991, 1996, 2002 and 2005 (15 years, 10 years, 5 years, and  3 years).