{"id":604,"date":"2012-12-25T22:38:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T03:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.investletter.com\/?p=604"},"modified":"2013-01-02T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T02:45:00","slug":"year-to-date-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investletter.com\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"Year to Date Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Year to date our model portfolio has returned 9.8% return \u00a0versus the S&amp;P 500 Average&#8217;s 16.0%.\u00a0 Baring unexpected favorable news this week we will fail to outperform the S&amp;P 500 Market average for the second time in the nine years we have published this newsletter.\u00a0 Our cumulative return over this same time frame is a much more favorable 279% versus the S&amp;P 500\u2032s 54%. While we have only published the newsletter the past nine years, the same strategy has beaten the S&amp;P 500 average eleven out of the past thirteen years and returned a cumulative 456% matched against a 24% return on an investment in the S&amp;P 500. Take a look at the chart to see year by year performance numbers.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investletter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Total-Performance.pdf\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-692\">Total-Performance<\/a><br \/>\n<a name='fb_share' type='button_count' href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php'>Share<\/a><script src='http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share' type='text\/javascript'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year to date our model portfolio has returned 9.8% return \u00a0versus the S&amp;P 500 Average&#8217;s 16.0%.\u00a0 Baring unexpected favorable news this week we will fail to outperform the S&amp;P 500 Market average for the second time in the nine years we have published this newsletter.\u00a0 Our cumulative return over this same time frame is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investletter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investletter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investletter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investletter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investletter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.investletter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/www.investletter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investletter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investletter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investletter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}