Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Walmart 5% of Plan Portfolio PSDS Scan 12-31-2014

If you have read TechNote 2015-3 you know that 401k-menu size is something that I want to better understand. The Walmart 401k Plan has 17 investment options in their SEC 11-k report. It was scanned and posted on this blog September 17, 2015. I also posted a scan of the 5% of Plan portfolio for Walmart Puerto Rico employees. That portfolio scan has only 5 investment options: WMT, IWB, ACWI, PDBAX and PTTRX.

I did not notice in the September post the obvious; the 5% of Plan portfolio with only 5 investment options was better diversified than the portfolio with 17 options. It also had a better 5yr return with less volatility. I ran another scan of the 5% of Plan portfolio today with very similar results. They indicate smaller portfolios often are better than larger and many employees are investing in the 5% of Plan portfolio.



Monday, December 21, 2015

A General Motors 401k Portfolio PSDS Scan 12-31-2014

This Scan does not include Target Date Funds or GM stock which does not have 5yr Market data just yet in my database. 




Friday, December 11, 2015

A Harry Browne Portfolio PSDS Scan 12-31-2014

The Harry Browne portfolio is conservative and for those who are more conservative than myself this PSDS 10-yr market data scan may be of interest.



Tuesday, December 8, 2015

A Roth Portfolio PSDS Scans 12-31-2014

The 3, 5 and 10 year PSDS scans for this Roth portfolio are a different format from the usual 3 format scan reports that have a 2D risk-reward chart and a correlation chart.  




Friday, December 4, 2015

Southwestern Energy Co 401k Plan PSDS San 12-31-2014

This is not a 100 yr old company and it illustrates a 401k Plan for a good company with a poorly performing stock the last 5 years.  The Employee portfolio 5yr performance is not too bad.


The above graphic is mis-labeled, the "Uniform" portfolio is the Employee portfolio.


Monday, November 30, 2015

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

A "Harry Browne" Portfolio PSDS Scan 12-31-2014

In this "Harry Browne" portfolio gold was replaced with a US company well over 100 years old that performs better in all 4 market disasters than gold, Church & Dwight CHD.