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VRA Letter: Happy New Year! 2024 VRA Portfolio Results: +27.1%. What Does 2025 Have in Store for Us, as The Big Bribe & Innovation Revolution RollsOn?

Good Thursday morning and Happy New Year! 2024 was another strong year for stocks, marking back to back years with gains of more than 20% in the S&P 500. In the VRA Portfolio we finished the year with gains of 27.1%. While i ...

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Good Thursday morning and Happy New Year! 2024 was another strong year for stocks, marking back to back years with gains of more than 20% in the S&P 500. In the VRA Portfolio we finished the year with gains of 27.1%. While it didn’t match 2023’s gains of 50.26%, it did mark 18 of 21 years that we’ve beaten the market.

Here are our VRA Portfolio Results along with returns for each major US equity index. 

VRA Portfolio Results 2024

VRA Portfolio: +27.1%

S&P 500: +23.31%
Dow Jones: +12.88%
Nasdaq: +28.67%
Russell 2000: +10.09%

Since founding the VRA in 2003 we've now outperformed the market in 18 of 21 years. Our bogey each year is the Russell 2000, as it has the most similar risk profile to the VRA Portfolio. As a reminder, we "triple time-stamp" each of our trades, in addition to posting all trades/results going back a full decade in your VRA Members Site.

What Does 2025 Have in Store for Us?

Since publishing our August 2022 book “The Big Bribe” we’ve bee...

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