You can not easily measure
your annualized portfolio performance, and it's difficult to compare your portfolio's performance to a benchmark.
Not exact matches
In professors Gerald Martin and John Puthenpurackal's study of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B)'s stock
portfolio's
performance from 1980 to 2003, they discovered that the
portfolio's 261 investments had an average
annualized rate of return of 39.3 %.
IRR is also comparable against
annualized market and fund returns, and cost of debt or leverage so it gives an excellent idea of
portfolio performance.
And it's not just the medium - term results that look impressive: according to the historical
performance data on the Crawling Road website, the
annualized return on the
portfolio was 9.7 % from 1972 through 2008.
The recent
performance of my model
portfolios has been excellent: in 2013, the humble Global Couch Potato returned more than 15 %, and over the last five years, a balanced index
portfolio could easily have achieved 10 %
annualized returns.
Fidelity, Merrill Edge and Schwab score extra points for offering customers
annualized performance data for their
portfolios.
Ibbotson also simulated the
performance of those three
portfolios when
annualized three - year return for large - caps were flat, down 10 %, up 10 % and up 20 %.
Investment
performance figures for the Classic Couch Potato
Portfolio by annual nominal value,
annualized rate of return and annual return.
†
Annualized MERs for the period ending August 31 2017 (as disclosed in each fund or
portfolio's interim management report of fund
performance).