As a private investor, by what percentage did your personal investments go up this year?

Question

And to what do you attribute that to as far as investment strategy? I did 8 to 9% with no stock investments and my investments were 50% insured at a 5% gain.

Answer 1

I managed 17.8% on investments (mutual funds, few ETF's, stocks) ...but nothing is "insured"...
P.S. The first response to your question was WAY OFF...10% per year will double your money a lot quicker than ten years!! I believe even 7% will do it in 7 years. ( at least pretty close...used to be called "the rule of seven")
Ooops! ..."the strategy" was fairly simple : most holdings in a couple of big safe funds..FCNTX, FFTWX... but some money in international ETF's.. FXI..ILF ...also some in nice dividend REIT's
and a couple of stocks that progressed nicely..ANST...GLYT
.....and also in the funds, I had small amounts in EUROX,FDIVX,NBGEX
Hope all that is somehow useful to you..

Answer 2

If you can get 10% you are doing well, that would mean your investment would double every ten years. I think their is 2 ways to get wealth, investing and saving more or getting more for your money. Earning 5% is not that hard to get, youcan find that online pretty easily. I referenced a site that showed how to be creative which I liked for the few tips it had.

Answer 3

51% so far in 2007

I do Ultra undervalue research and investing.
I plan on building on this gain.
A large percent of my holdings are in PBLS
This issue will increse exponentially in the coming months.
@ .0155 represents the best value in the market.

I would suggest to anyone to devote at least 8 hours of research
on this company.
This is an AMEX stock in pennies clothing.
http://www.pbls.biz/pressrelease_content.asp?prid=82

Jockee

Answer 4

I did 22%, mostly on selling Nokia and Ebay stock. I bought low and sold high. Good luck.