Anonymous average annual return in the last decade poll

[Arden]

In the last decade the market has done pretty much nothing- how have you done? How efficient is the market I wonder.

[Arden]

If you started investing just before the rally of 2009 or somehting, try and normalize your results by comparing them to the market.

[racemize]

I've only got 2+ years, so I don't think I can respond with any meaning.  The current year has made my IRR for the overall about 50%, so that's totally useless...

[hyten1]

arden

 

do you mean annualized return or average return they are 2 different things. i answered the poll assuming annualized return, that was prob wrong. my average return would be higher than my annualized.

 

hy

[Arden]

Hey hy,

I mean compounding return, sorry if i was unclear :-)

[Packer16]

So do you mean if we doubled over that time would it be 100% or 7% (compounded over 10 years)?

 

Packer

[Shane]

Great Idea with this.  Speaking as someone who does not have a 10 year track record, I think you should ask people not to vote if you don't have 10 years.  If you havea concentrated portfolio your probably pretty likely to deviate from a benchmark quite a bit so there is no real practical way of annualizing a 3-4 year into a 10 year... especially with a phenominal bull rally underway...

[watsa_is_a_randian_hero]

I think this survey would have been more useful with buckets of

 

-10+

-10 to -5

-5 to 0

0-5%

5%-10%

10-15%

15-20%

20-30%

30%+

 

Over 10 years, most people are going to cluster around 0-15%.  should break that up into more buckets. 

 

I'm at 17.4% annualized, but I only have 8 years of reliable data. 

[barminov]

Am I the only one that finds it comical that all these threads (average annual return, YTD return) pop-up when there has been a big run-up? Where were these threads towards the end of 2011?  ::)

[ERICOPOLY]

Am I the only one that finds it comical that all these threads (average annual return, YTD return) pop-up when there has been a big run-up? Where were these threads towards the end of 2011?  ::)

 

You mean the one that we did have last year (October I think) where I posted -25% and UCCMAL posted -35%.

 

Oh yeah, that thread  ;)

[barminov]

Am I the only one that finds it comical that all these threads (average annual return, YTD return) pop-up when there has been a big run-up? Where were these threads towards the end of 2011?  ::)

 

You mean the one that we did have last year (October I think) where I posted -25% and UCCMAL posted -35%.

 

Oh yeah, that thread  ;)

 

You're probably right, I generally ignore those threads but lately it feels like an online penis measuring contest is about to break out.

[Arden]

Now that we have some results, I wonder if they're representative of value investing, since people with better results are probably more likely to post them.

 

Nonetheless, the fact that the poll is anonymous and I believe in the honesty of the guys (And, according to another recent poll- girls) here, I think there may just be something to this thing called "value investing. Maybe :)

[Uccmal]

Lol, Barmonov

 

Things are a little better so far this year.  Adding 2011 and 2012 ytd I am still down about 10%.