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   / How are your investments doing? #131  
Look at the returns for the S&P over those same periods.
3mo 6.2%
1y 13.65%
3y 80.54%
5y 89.57%

If you aren't beating the S&P over time, I'd rethink your strategy. The risk is spread across so many companies, it is almost a given.

That said, a good advisor can keep you well above the S&P.
Your numbers are cumulative.
His numbers were yearly
 
   / How are your investments doing? #132  
You can, but you will be reinvesting with only 80% or less of your profits, after fed and state capital gains taxes that can't be avoided.
LOL.
 
   / How are your investments doing? #133  
  • Cash and Short-Term Investments: Berkshire holds a record amount of cash and U.S. Treasury bills, which reached approximately $381 billion by the end of Q3 2025. This represents about 31.1% of its total assets, a historically high figure.
AI sucks.

Berkshire Hathaway owns a lot of companies that also hold US treasuries. In total it's over a trillion dollars.

Parent company + subsidiaries = total.
 
   / How are your investments doing? #134  
I'm 65 and still 95% S&P index.

Any suggestions for safe, typically in a 401 k plan and somewhat liquid?

Sounds like you're doing well so far!

Talk to our Blmgtn Charles Schwab office. Locally owned, unlike most branches. Sound advice, no pressure, high customer service level, low fees, no advisor charge.
 
   / How are your investments doing? #135  
AI sucks.

Berkshire Hathaway owns a lot of companies that also hold US treasuries. In total it's over a trillion dollars.

Parent company + subsidiaries = total.

Source?
 
   / How are your investments doing?
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#139  
Here is the chart on three of the funds I'm in. The top one I got in over ten years ago in a small way, then in a big way in 2022 after we sold the inherited farms and houses. Middle one is self explanatory. Bottom is the money market fund they put everything in when you put money in a Fidelity account. Then you buy other funds with the money in that one. It has no minimum investment. They have other money market accounts that pay slightly higher with differing minimums of $100k, $1M, $10M, etc., but why earn less than 4% when you can earn more than 40%. You just have to be aware that a major correction can happen at any time. And when that correction happens don't get upset, laugh about it, wait it out, and when it starts back up put everything you can back in it. I have made a killing on the FSELX over the past three years. It has put my wife and I in a financial secure situation. We may not be rich but we are comfortable. And the fund has averaged 15.7% a year since 1985!! Remember the rule of 72, divide the percentage rate into 72 to see how many years it takes for an investment to double.

Fidelity Fund
Fund Picks
Socially Responsible
NameYTD # (Daily)1 Yr3 Yr5 Yr10 YrLife of Fund
Fidelity Fund
Fund Picks
Fidelity® Select Semiconductors Portfolio (FSELX)+45.37%+52.38%+58.48%+36.57%+30.87%+15.70%
Fidelity Fund
Fidelity® 500 Index Fund (FXAIX)+16.76%+21.43%+22.66%+17.62%+14.62%+11.25%
Fidelity Fund
Fidelity® Government Money Market Fund (SPAXX)+3.39%+4.07%+4.54%+2.85%+1.83%+2.70%
 
   / How are your investments doing? #140  
Here’s an investing fun fact, most are unaware of:

Human psychology is one of the biggest detriments to investors and even traders, success, without us even being aware of it.
One of the most interesting (in my opinion) is political bias fallacy.

The fact is, a higher percentage of individual public investors, withdraw their money from the market when their political party looses.
When your opposition party wins, you’re more likely to imagine a dreadful future for the country, and more likely to take out funds to “ protect your investments “.
Investors of the political leaning of the incoming party are optimistic and more likely to stay, and/ or increase investments.

Historically, the market has more upside than downside, so statistically, people of the leaning of the party at the time do better with their investments.
This site seems to prove it true. Maybe not 100%, but pretty close, from posts Ive read.

Think of it this way….When 1/2 the voters think the market is going down because of bad administration, the other half of the country is thinking the exact opposite. 😃

Never let your political bias influence your stock market decisions
 
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