Is Your Retirement Portfolio Making New Record Highs?

[NewsFeeder]

Is Your Retirement Portfolio Making New Record Highs?

[at Wall St. Cheat Sheet] - While the nation is left with the weakest economic recovery in history despite years of intervention by central banks, some Americans are witnessing a rebound.

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/exte...ortfolio-making-new-record-highs.html/?ref=YF

 

[Boghie]

I was at new highs as of something like November/December 2009.

Love this market. Something like 165% up since December 31, 2008 - if I read my Quicken stuff correctly.
Sure would have been nice to sleep through last year in the C or S Funds though.
Don't really care about a correction, watching for a fall.
But, you always gotta watch for a 2008.

Anyway, all in all, yummy

 

[Boghie]

Uh, I performed a smell test on that 165% number. Yowser. How could any idiot place that on the web. The web is forever.

You gotta learn how to use Quicken dummy. Yowser. You can't just take a balance as of 2009/01/01 and math it to 2013/12/31 - that does not take into account contributions. Gotta do the IRR thang. So, make that 65% in growth since 2009/01/01. Maybe 69%, but that has some fandango with a loan that seems double posted.

Anyway, 65% growth over the five years seems about right.
It passes the smell test...
Nice, very nice...