Retirement Nestegg Report - April 2012
Well the good news is that my retirement nestegg grew again this month, the bad news is it was only because I contributed nearly $8,000 to my retirement accounts. That being said it felt good to max …
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Retirement Nestegg Report - March 2012
Another month of nice growth for my retirement nestegg report. My first monthly report north of $200k and I cleared that hurdle by a good margin. Performance on a whole trailed the market some as my …
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Sorry to all of you that tried to leave me a comment in the last 8 months or so - just realized my spam plugin was blocking all comments - I just thought I turned unpopular :-) Anyway you should be …
Read MoreRetirement Nestegg Report - February 2012
Well I gave a little back in the last two days so I will have to wait before I have a retirement nestegg report over $200k. A good month for my retirement nestegg growth but a good chunk of that was …
Read MoreInterim Retirement Nestegg Report - I broke $200,000
Traditional Rollover IRA $17,604.34 My Roth IRA $52,623.89 Wife Roth IRA $25,600.70 Current Traditional 401k $104,658.75 Total Retirement Nest Egg $200,487.68 Feel kind of dorky doing this 2 days …
Read MoreRetirement Nestegg Report - January 2012
Well a really good month for my retirement nestegg growth and my investment performance against the SP500. I had been on a bit of a losing streak (4 months in a row) - but I snapped out of that slump …
Read MoreMy best and worst stocks in 2011
Below are the top 8 best performing stocks I owned for the entire year in 2011 and their performance. MAKO Surgical Corp (MAKO) +65.64% Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) +58.82% Buffalo Wild Wings (BWLD) …
Read MoreMy Investment Holdings – January 2012
It’s been a year since I last updated my investment holdings so I figured January every year would be a good time to do this. In general my investments will not change much from year to year as …
Read MoreRetirement Nestegg Report - December 2011
Well another year in the books and a bit of a bummer the second half of the year with regards to my nestegg growth and my investment performance vs the SP500. As you will see in some follow up posts - …
Read MoreMy savings account is now bigger than my home mortgage.
Kind of a weird scenario happened last month. The amount of money that my wife and I have saved up for building our next house has actually surpassed the amount of the mortgage on our existing house. …
Read MoreRetirement Nestegg Report - November 2011
Well another month where I trailed the SP500 (3 in a row). This does not give me cause for concern as over the long term I have been beating the market and up until the last three months I had a …
Read MoreRetirement Nestegg Report - October 2011
Well for the second month in a row my investments have lost out to the SP 500 index and for the second month in a row I am going to blame Reed Hastings :-) Traditional Rollover IRA – $15,201.22 …
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