How are your investments doing?

   / How are your investments doing? #121  
I love this thread!

I appreciate everyone's 2 cents on this subject and it helps people like myself learn how other people look at things through a different lens.
 
   / How are your investments doing? #122  
Money managers act like Oaktree...they never want you to sell and bank profits because that cuts off their money train too.

You can bank profits, idle for a bit and then buy back once things get cheaper.

You can grow a portfolio much bigger this way then doing the money managers favorite word...dollar cost averaging.

You can also shrink a portfolio in this manner, by incorrectly guessing what the future will be.

I believe in not taking more risk than is necessary. If I'm financially comfortable, I'm not going to fret that I could have made (or lost) a few percent more with a different approach.
 
   / How are your investments doing? #123  
I'm all in for a Dec rate cut and the SCOTUS likely limiting tariff powers of POTUS.

Things go up and down, but I've have 14% more upside than downside in my investing career.

I don't try to time the market, I don't move things around. Look at fundamentals and choose wisely and sit, that is all I do.
choose wisely and sit,

For a particular period of time. I at one point had 5 year goals. I only re-evaluated to due to life changing events. Three of them.
 
   / How are your investments doing? #125  
We did all of our retirement planning based on 6-7% returns.

In reality we did much better.

So I quit early.
 
   / How are your investments doing? #126  
This is one of my accounts that I do like Ron Popeil and "Just set it, and forget it". It has a neat little snapshot of percentages. I'm seeing similar returns as CKF above.

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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.
 
   / How are your investments doing? #127  
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.

The numbers I posted are average annual rate of return. It beats the S&P by a bit. If I calculated it right I think, discounting my contributions, my 5 year actual increase is around 93%. So just short of double.
 
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   / How are your investments doing? #128  
You literally thought that is what I meant?

Put it money markets, US treasuries, or even dividend stocks.

Warren Buffet has sold most equities and has rotated into almost a trillion dollars of US treasuries.

  • 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.
 

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