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My All Time Investment Performance January 2017

My All Time Investment Performance January 2017

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Continuing on my tradition from previous year’s I have calculated my cumulative investment returns from 2006 until now against the SP500.

As I mentioned in recent posts 2016 was a very underwhelming year for my investments and it is reflected in these statistics as well. My NestEgg is now underperforming the SP500 index over the 11 years that I have been investing. Returning a little over 1/2 percent less per year than the SP500 index. My stock returns are still besting the SP500 by a few percentage points which means my 401k has really been lackluster which kind of surprises me as I wouldn’t have expected to have significantly lower returns in there using basically series of Vanguard funds over the years and if I look at my performance that is not reflected so I am kind of at a loss right now.

Vanguard 401k Returns

MFJ Returns By Year

YearSP500MFJ NesteggMFJ Stocks
200615.79%14.37%14.20%
20075.49%5.50%7.25%
2008-37.00%-47.98%-37.00%
200924.46%32.75%35.78%
201015.06%24.60%36.94%
20112.11%-5.53%-2.29%
201216.00%18.12%10.25%
201332.39%50.20%68.58%
201413.69%8.91%7.91%
20151.38%7.3414.34
20169.54%3.32%-4.57%

MFJ Cumulative Returns By Year

YearSP500MFJ NesteggMFJ Stocks
200615.79%14.37%14.20%
200722.15%20.66%22.48%
200823.05%-37.23%-22.84%
2009-2.69%-16.68%4.77%
201011.97%3.82%43.47%
201114.33%-1.92%40.19%
201232.63%15.85%54.56%
201375.58%74.01%160.55%
201499.62%89.51%181.16%
2015102.37%103.42%221.48%
2016121.68%110.18%206.79%

Annualized Returns since 2006

SP500 +7.51%
MFJ Nestegg +6.98%
MFJ Stocks +10.73%

My Investment Holdings January 2017

My Investment Holdings January 2017

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In annual tradition I will list all of my current investments. These really do not change significantly from year to year as I don’t do a lot of buying and selling and well now as my portfolio has grown so big the amount of money I am putting in towards new investments tends to be sort of insignificant.

That being said there was some movement around this year. The mutual funds are part of my 401k and are a very similar percentage of my overall retirement nestegg. I max out my 401k each year and kind of just set it and forget about it. My 401k makes up about 45% of my nestegg.

My individual stock holdings comprise of about 30-40 stocks with the new addition this year being that I am now including some private stock I had previously not included that is actually my largest individual stock holding. My top 5 public stock holdings this year are Netflix, Tesla Motors, Amazon, Buffalo Wild Wings, and Under Armour which are the same five from last year with a few of them flipping spots.

I feel super good about that top 5. My Tesla stake has increased due to the large investment I had in Solar City which the acquired as well as most of my investment money this year going to Tesla. I feel very strongly that their future will be very bright and have a big enough and diversified portfolio that I can probably take a larger risk there without it really affecting my overall portfolio too negatively.

SYMBOLPercentage
VPMAX11.49%
VIEIX11.48%
VINIX11.38%
VILVX10.73%
Private Bank Stock8.95%
NFLX6.47%
TSLA6.44%
AMZN4.59%
BWLD4.38%
UA4.15%
SBUX2.57%
CMG2.53%
AAPL2.19%
MIDD2.02%
BOFI1.28%
BRK-B1.22%
AMBA1.17%
BIP1.12%
BJRI0.94%
PNRA0.89%
ANET0.61%
TXRH0.60%
IPGP0.56%
ISRG0.38%
ZOES0.34%
COST0.28%
PRLB0.27%
SHOP0.26%
DDD0.25%
PCLN0.22%
SAM0.15%
SSYS0.09%
Retirement Nestegg Report December 2016

Retirement Nestegg Report December 2016

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Overall a pretty disappointing year for my Retirement Nestegg. My investments greatly underperformed the market and the market was up a nice amount this year. Overall this is an anomaly based on my previous 10+ years of investing and will not cause me to make any rash changes to my investment philosophy. It is still frustrating though especially when my account is large enough now where even average investment performance probably would have pushed me over the $700k mark.

One area where I knocked it out of the park this year was in my investment contributions. I contributed a record $67,350 to my retirement accounts this year. Part of this was a $25,000 contribution I made to a taxable account with left over money we had after building our house. Overall I want to continue to bump up our taxable account as we start ramping up for early retirement.

Taxable Account- $43,553.69 (+2.25%)
Private Stock $60,000 (+0.00%)
Traditional Rollover IRA – $29,225.55 (-5.47%)
My Roth IRA – $150,481.80 (+0.83%)
Wife Roth IRA – $85,092.60 (+4.94%)
Traditional 401k – $302,111.57 (+2.06%)

Roth/Traditional % = 35.43% (tax free)

Total Retirement Nest Egg $670,465.21(+1.60%)
Retirement Salary (4%) – $26,818

Monthly Contributions $653.13 (401k)
SP500 Performance +1.82%
My Monthly Investment Performance +1.51% (-0.31% vs SP500)
My Monthly Individual Stocks Performance +1.48% (-0.34% vs SP500)

My retirement contributions for 2016 $67,350.70
401k $18,000.00
401k matching $12,350.70
My Roth IRA $5,500
Wife Roth IRA $5,500
Taxable Account $26,000

SP500 Performance for 2016 +9.54%
Investment Performance for 2016 +3.32% (-6.22% vs SP500)
Individual Stock Performance for 2016 -4.57% (-14.11% vs SP500)
Total Investment Return 2016 +$17,455.46

Retirement Nestegg Report November 2016

Retirement Nestegg Report November 2016

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Well another all-time high for my nestegg, but another month of disappointing performance by my individual stock holdings. Overall this year my stocks have trailed the market quite significantly in part to under performance by some of my key holdings like Tesla, Chipotle, Under Armour, Netflix and others. Overall I am not too concerned but it does get frustrating watching the market beat me month after month in 2016. The good news is I have about half of my portfolio in market index funds so not all hope is lost and so far over longer periods of time I still have outperformed by quite a significant margin with my individual stocks, but this is not one of those years. Luckily though I feel as confident as ever that the aforementioned under performing stocks will greatly reward me in the future.

Taxable Account- $42,594.38 (+3.44%)
Private Stock $60,000 (+0.00%)
Traditional Rollover IRA – $30,915.37 (+9.14%)
My Roth IRA – $149,245.46 (+2.90%)
Wife Roth IRA – $81,088.55 (-1.50%)
Traditional 401k – $296,022.09 (+4.78%)

Roth/Traditional % = 35.43% (tax free)

Total Retirement Nest Egg $659,865.85(+3.20%)
Retirement Salary (4%) – $26,394

Monthly Contributions $1,371.16 (401k)
SP500 Performance +3.42%
My Monthly Investment Performance +2.99% (-0.43% vs SP500)
My Monthly Individual Stocks Performance +2.35% (-1.07% vs SP500)

Retirement Nestegg Report October 2016

Retirement Nestegg Report October 2016

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Taxable Account- $41,179.18 (-5.75%)
Private Stock $60,000 (+0.00%)
Traditional Rollover IRA – $28,325.27 (-8.74%)
My Roth IRA – $145,046.18 (-1.68%)
Wife Roth IRA – $82,327.47 (+0.89%)
Traditional 401k – $282,527.68 (-2.24%)

Roth/Traditional % = 35.43% (tax free)

Total Retirement Nest Egg $639,405.78(-2.06%)
Retirement Salary (4%) – $25,576

Monthly Contributions $1,371.16 (401k)
SP500 Performance -1.94%
My Monthly Investment Performance -2.27% (-0.33% vs SP500)
My Monthly Individual Stocks Performance -2.30% (-0.36% vs SP500)

Retirement Nestegg Report September 2016

Retirement Nestegg Report September 2016

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Taxable Account- $43,689.79 (-3.71%)
Private Stock $60,000 (+0.00%)
Traditional Rollover IRA – $31,038.00 (-3.99%)
My Roth IRA – $147,529.06 (-1.26%)
Wife Roth IRA – $81,598.29 (-1.29%)
Traditional 401k – $288,999.95 (+1.31%)

Roth/Traditional % = 35.43% (tax free)

Total Retirement Nest Egg $652,855.09(-0.33%)
Retirement Salary (4%) – $26,114

Monthly Contributions $1,371.16 (401k)
SP500 Performance -0.12%
My Monthly Investment Performance -0.54% (-0.42% vs SP500)
My Monthly Individual Stocks Performance -1.91% (-1.79% vs SP500)

Financial Goal Checkup: My very own basketball court

Financial Goal Checkup: My very own basketball court

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About 9 years ago I posted a kind of an unique financial goal on this blog – I wanted my very own full court basketball court.

In roughly 5 years time I want to have enough money put away so that I can build a house out in the country with a full court outdoor sportcourt basketball/volleyball/tennis/etc court. — MFJ 2007

Well I am here to report on the progress of this not often mentioned financial goal I had for myself. Well the good news is that I saved quite a bit of money for that house out in the country starting in 2007. In fact I ended up saving $180k+ in cash for our move to the country, new house, and of course basketball court.

The bad news is it took us a lot longer to find the perfect land out in the country and we didn’t actually build until 2016. This also happened to be one of the greatest times to invest in the market in my lifetime so that $180k probably cost me double that, but the good news is that I can now report that we have secured 15 acres out in the country, built our dream house, and if you open the oversized garage you will find my very own basketball court.

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Now in my original post I had always envisioned an outdoor sport court type basketball court, but given the fact that I live in WI I figured the bigger bang for buck would be to move it indoors so that I can use it year round and cost constraints ended up making it a half court, but I am still very happy with how it turned out. Our garage is nearly 1500 ft and it is a great spot for the kids to play regardless of the weather.

The best part is I was able to pull this off while still accumulating a sizable nestegg despite having only one income and raising 5 young kids. I’m sure many people will view this as an extravagant expenditure that set my early retirement back years. And it is! It’s totally unnecessary and so is our mansion in the country, but it is also something that I have wanted for a long time (blog post in 2007) and something our family will enjoy for years to come. Life is about balance and we have put ourselves in great financial shape where we can afford anything we want, just not everything we want 🙂

We have five young kids and while I could have amassed a much larger nestegg or achieved Financial Independence much earlier if we had continued to live the status quo – it likely would have come at the expense of our memories we get to create with our children in the short period of time they are in our house. No sense in becoming financially independent eating rice and beans and try to get the kids to come over and play basketball with when they are 25 and I am 50 🙂

The biggest thing is we set ourselves on a very solid foundation in our early years where as I’ve said before that by setting and reaching goals in our 20s we put ourselves in such a good situation that it will be hard for us to wreck ourselves financially by wanton spending in our older years (30s & 40s). We still are spending money on things that bring us value and happiness and minimizing spending on things that do not. I still drive a typical MFJ pimp ride (wife’s used car we bought 13 years ago) and we are still saving a good portion of our income and on the path to financial independence in our early 40s. We just happen to have a basketball court in our garage 🙂

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