Post Your "12-Month Personal Rate of Return"

[MrBowl]

Best ever, still seems inadequate compared to what some of y'all did in 2013, but I have to be happy with it.
In fact if I ever complain about >15%, someone please punch me.
I was once told that a person should expect to earn better than 8% in investments and consider it successful.
Seems kind of modest, what do y'all think is a reasonable expectation?

Bernie Madoff promised his clients 12%. He could've just done what a few people here are doing, actually been legal, and kept everything above 12% for himself and still be living the good life today.

Out of the 800 msgs on this thread I wonder what the highest PIP posted ever was. I saw remark at some point last year had over 40%. Maybe the highest occurred in 2009. I might go looking.

Ooops, I now see that this thread started at the end of 2010.

 

[tom1tom1]

Your Personal Investment Performance (PIP) for the past 12 months ending 12/31/2013 is 13.17%.
(Your PIP is posted by the 3rd business day of each month.)

Could of been better after getting 23% return last year but luv having double digit returns. Good luck in 2014 everyone!

 

[Skooby]

Your Personal Investment Performance (PIP) for the past 12 months ending 12/31/2013 is 36.2%.
(Your PIP is posted by the 3rd business day of each month.)

 

[ross0211]

Your Personal Investment Performance (PIP) for the past 12 months ending 12/31/2013 is 36.57%.
(Your PIP is posted by the 3rd business day of each month.)

 

[Asylum]

Held steady in the S Fund all year...

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Truthfully, I thought about pulling back to the G Fund a dozen times, but I managed to pack up my password info in a box during my PCS move to Germany back in April. Getting a new one was on my to-do list, but I never got around to it until last week. Worked out well.

 

[Aviator_Guy]

Your Personal Investment Performance (PIP) for the past 12 months ending 12/31/2013 is 21.9%.
(Your PIP is posted by the 3rd business day of each month.)

 

[TxFan]

Your Personal Investment Performance (PIP) for the past 12 months ending 12/31/2013 is 32.88%

 

[Weather]

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[TD="class: alignLeft"]Your Personal Investment Performance (PIP) for the past 12 months ending 01/31/2014 is 8.08%.
(Your PIP is posted by the 3rd business day of each month.)

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[nasa1974]

Your Personal Investment Performance (PIP) for the past 12 months ending 01/31/2014 is 25.38%.

 

[Rogue]

Your Personal Investment Performance (PIP) for the past 12 months ending 01/31/2014 is 11.18%.

Going in the wrong direction.

 

[BichonFreeze]

My first post hooray!

Your Personal Investment Performance (PIP) for the past 12 months ending 01/31/2014 is 9.31%.
(Your PIP is posted by the 3rd business day of each month.)

January sure hurt me, but at least I found this website early enough to do an ITF last week.

 

[Lindoug]

Down from last month, only because last year was a bit rough at the beginning. Already see such a huge improvement coming!

Your Personal Investment Performance (PIP) for the past 12 months ending 01/31/2014 is 13.58%

 

[rlundy]

Your Personal Investment Performance (PIP) for the past 12 months ending 01/31/2014 is 6.7%.

Ouch

 

[RealMoneyIssues]

Your Personal Investment Performance (PIP) for the past 12 months ending 01/31/2014 is 10.4%.

Better than negative...

 

[Unmanned]

Your Personal Investment Performance (PIP) for the past 12 months ending 01/31/2014 is 24.73%.
(Your PIP is posted by the 3rd business day of each month.)

Moving in the wrong direction this month, but still acceptable. My long term average is still north of 12% so all is good.

 

[Intrepid_Timer]

Maybe we should start posting what the S&P 500 is doing to see how everyone compares. At the end of Dec, the S&P 500's one year return was 29.59%. At the end of Jan, it was 19.03%. I'll try to remember to update it monthly.

 

[shitepoke]

Re: Held steady in the S Fund all year...

Pardon my ignorance- where do I find my PIP again...

 

[remark]

Your Personal Investment Performance (PIP) for the past 12 months ending 01/31/2014 is 28.12%.
(Your PIP is posted by the 3rd business day of each month.)

Need a large bandage for the bleeding. +5.64/Jan 13 vs -2.27/Jan 14 Ouch........

 

[Intrepid_Timer]

Re: Held steady in the S Fund all year...

Pardon my ignorance- where do I find my PIP again...

When you log into your TSP account, click on:

View your 12-Month Personal Investment Performance (PIP)


It is between the balances and the pie charts.

 

[RealMoneyIssues]

Maybe we should start posting what the S&P 500 is doing to see how everyone compares. At the end of Dec, the S&P 500's one year return was 29.59%. At the end of Jan, it was 19.03%. I'll try to remember to update it monthly.

Since a lot of these folks were probably in the S fund, maybe posting the Wilshire 4500 would be good too... just a thought