Monthly Financial Update – February 1, 2018

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The Monthly Financial Update gives our readers an inside look at the allocation and performance of our personal portfolio. At the beginning of each month, we share a snapshot of our investments and highlight their performance over the previous month. In addition, we compute our progress towards achieving our retirement number.

Best Month So Far

So far, 2018 has been a great year for our investment portfolio. The bull market has continued to thrive and we saw significant gains. In fact, our gains this month were the highest of any month since we started measuring. In all, our total net worth increased by 6.45% over the month of January! Using 25 times our expenses to calculate our retirement number and comparing it to our new total net worth, we can determine that we have now saved 35.2% of our retirement number. Early retirement here we come!

Check out our performance in the table below.

The Numbers

AccountsPortfolio AllocationChange In Value (Jan-Feb)
Liquid Funds1.3%-21.7%
High-Yield Savings7.8%-13.8%
REITs1.5%0.3%
401(k)s52.0%7.5%
IRAs3.9%54.7%
HSA0.1%0%
Cryptocurrencies0.1%-28.7%
P2P Lending0.3%0.9%
Taxable Stock Investments32.9%9.0%
Debt0.1%329.8%
Total =100%

Portfolio Allocation = Current asset distribution of our portfolio
Investment Performance = Change in account value due to asset appreciation/depreciation, deposits, and withdrawals

Growth Toward Retirement

Tools To Get You Started

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