Investment Performance November 2008(-6.89%)
This is an ongoing monthly update on how our equity investments are performing. Please see this background on the investment tool I developed and how I am using it to track our performance against a benchmark to measure our progress or lack thereof.
Its still a work in progress, any feedback is appreciated and may be incorporated into future monthly reports. The only equity investments not covered are:
1) my 401k which is invested in institutional index funds through my employer that I haven't found a tracking symbol for.
2) investments roughly worth less than $500, simply because I don't have the time and energy to keep up with them. I am thinking I will sell these off at some point and add the proceeds to my current investment portfolio because they are too much work to track.
Once we get settled in a bit more I will work on making this report more comprehensive.
November Highlights:
- November was a better than October. We even eeked out another percentage point gain over our benchmark. Thats 2 months in a row that we beat our benchmark.
- We continued to buy more investments, mainly indexed investments including the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index (VTI).
- We picked up 100 additional shares of the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index (VTI) and 100 additional shares of the KBW Banking Idex (KBE).
- We also added to investments in GE, USG(not shown), COP (not shown), and our IRAs.
- InBev's purchase of Anheuser Busch completed in November and our 105.72 shares were converted to cash for a nice profit on a three year investment. I had planned to reinvest all of this money into index investments, but we put a house under contract and wanted to hold onto as much cash as possible through closing.
- While not shown in this report, according to my 401k website, my 401k is down 40.4% YTD at the end of November.
November 2008 Investment Report:
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Comments (2)
I'm glad to see you're investing through indexes. I like the Total Market Fund (I use Fidelity's equivalent) but I don't like to use sector funds (such as the KBW).
I've been reading the Intelligent Investor (the Benjamin Graham book) and there is a lot of wisdom in there. If you haven't read it yet, I suggest you check it out.
Posted by Thisson | December 13, 2008 2:11 PM
I am also a big believer in indexing instead of speculating. Why not go in all ETFs instead of individual stocks. I see you have alot of energy stocks, why not just go in to an Etf like XLE
Posted by Bill M. | December 13, 2008 10:46 PM