Thursday, November 29, 2007

Coffeehouse Investor

Recently, I was check for mutual fund options, stumped up on an investment strategy called ''Coffeehouse Investor''. Here is it's portfolio:

Vanguard 500 VFINX 10%
V. Value Index VIVAX 10%
V. Small Cap Index NAESX 10%
V. Small Cap Value
VISVX 10%
V. REIT VGTSX 10%
V. int.Bond Index VBIIX 20%
V. total Bond Index VBMFX 30%

Apparently, by investing in Index funds, this portfolio has outperformed 95% of the Wall Street big name mutual funds. Here is the list of its returns




1992
9.57%

1993
15.64%

1994
-0.58%

1995
22.89%

1996
14.53%

1997
17.95%

1998
6.88%

1999
8.30%

2000
7.25%

2001
1.88%

2002
-5.55%

2003
23.56%

2004
14.18%
2005
5.97%
2006
15.002%
ANNUALIZED


16 YEAR RETURN

11%

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