May 4th, 2009
April Brings Money Showers: How My Model Portfolio Did This Past Month
If you recall, March 2009 was the first month in a long time with significant gains. As I’ve been discussing on the blog recently, those gains continued through April.
The Vanguard Total Stock Market Index (VTSMX) ended the month with another gain, this time of 8.80%. The T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund (PRIDX) did even better, with an increase of value of 12.09%. And finally, the bond portion of the portfolio did fine as well: the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index (VBMFX) was down a cent, or .09%; the Vanguard GNMA Fund (VFIIX) was also down a cent, again, a microscopic .09%, but both continuing to pay their fine dividend yields of 4.65% and 4.71% respectively.
This marks our second straight month of significant gains in the portfolio! Again, let’s not get too high when these happen, and keep perspective on the fact that the S&P 500 is still down for the year, but things look much, much better right now than they did in February.
We’ll continue checking in with our portfolio as time goes on, but the last two months have been outstanding!
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