In as we speak’s put up I’m sharing my 2021 efficiency evaluate and the way I’ve produced 22.9% common annual funding returns within the portfolios I’ve managed during the last decade.

Discovering a couple of nice shares after which sitting on my ass continued as a development from from 2016 via 2021 which Charlie Munger fondly describes as “sitting in your ass and doing nothing.”

Charlie Munger stated this, or one thing related, and it’s what I’ve finished for greater than 5 full years now.

I’ve purchased ZERO new inventory investments since April of 2015 – virtually 7 years in the past as of this writing – once I purchased a couple of nice companies, and haven’t finished a lot since.

At the very least by way of shopping for investments.

Why?

As a result of the market nonetheless continues to go straight up and valuations on ALL belongings worldwide are nonetheless at or close to all-time highs.

I’ve now stated this for six straight years.

For this reason I’ve spent my time constructing companies and coaching others within the final virtually 7 years.

However persistence provides us an unlimited benefit as deep and disciplined worth buyers over the long run.

I WILL NOT alter my standards simply to purchase an funding.

Even when its been virtually 7 years since I’ve purchased one.

I’ll stay affected person and diligent, and proceed to be taught and anticipate valuations to return down.

The above quote from Benjamin Graham is one in every of my favorites.

It means within the short-term – feelings and psychology drive the market, however within the long-term – the market and particular person shares, get judged on how effectively they’ve operated and grown over time.

That is nice information for us as long-term – oriented worth buyers.

If we will discover a couple of nice firms at low-cost to truthful costs, and maintain them for the long-term, we’ll have nice returns over time. Why? As a result of…

“Time is the buddy of the fantastic firm, the enemy of the mediocre.” – Warren Buffett.

With this as a backdrop, under is the 2021 efficiency evaluate.

For hyperlinks to the prior years’ efficiency critiques, you should utilize the hyperlinks under.

Additionally, as famous above in a number of the particular person posts, I made a number of errors in 2013 and 2018 when calculating my returns. The numbers under – which present the ten full years between 2012 and 2021 – are right.

2021 Efficiency Evaluate

Once more, how have I continued beating the market with out shopping for something new within the portfolios I handle?

I nonetheless personal all the businesses from 2014 and 2015 besides for 8 of them. I purchased 3 new firms in 2015, ZERO new investments in 2016, ZERO investments in 2017, ZERO in 2018, ZERO in 2019, ZERO in 2020. and ZERO in 2021.

Investments which are now not owned had been among the many following – merged, gone personal, liquidated, offered.

The remaining investments within the portfolios I handle produced a mean GAIN of 17.13% in 2021.

Under is the total spreadsheet going again during the last 10 years of my returns…

SPREADSHEET LINK HERE

Outcomes had been up this 12 months as a result of continued rise within the markets and the person shares I purchased years in the past within the portfolios I handle.

One other two elements affecting this 12 months’s outcomes had been:

1.) Since I final purchased a inventory in 2015, there are actually 8 firms I owned which have been offered / bought-out / merged / gone personal. Aside from 1 of those firms which I made a mistake shopping for, the others had been a number of the greatest firms I owned.

2.) The common money place within the portfolios I handle is now as much as 64.6% with new money additions, gross sales of shares, and proceeds from merging / going personal transactions.

This massive money place is an enormous lag on efficiency… If I used to be totally invested – which I hardly ever am so I can preserve open for alternatives – this might enhance outcomes additional. For example of this, if I had been capable of purchase the 7 shares I wished to purchase in the course of the Covid Crash in March 2020 – the portfolios I handle would have been up 98.3% this 12 months as a substitute of the 48.3% they had been up.

However shares went again up so quick my purchase orders by no means obtained stuffed.

So what does this imply for cumulative full nine-year returns now?

10 Full Years Of My Funding Returns

Listed below are Buffett’s returns that I reference under…

The Buffett Partnership Returns

I don’t evaluate myself to Buffett as a result of I need to be the subsequent Buffett, however as a result of everybody is aware of who he’s, as he’s regarded by most as one of the best investor ever.

Fairly, I need to be generally known as the primary Jason Rivera when my profession is over.

In the top, I need to be generally known as a greater investor and capital allocator than Buffett and to provide higher returns over time than he has so I may help thousands and thousands or billions of individuals all around the world.

For the primary six full years in my profession I used to be attaining this lofty aim…

Within the seventh 12 months with my first ever down 12 months I fell behind… And within the eighth – tenth years I remained behind and can probably stay so for the foreseeable future since its now been virtually 7 years since I’ve purchased one thing new.

Within the first 10 years of my profession, I’ve produced common – non-compounded – returns of twenty-two.9% annually. Or a complete cumulative return of 229.1% over that interval.

Within the first 10 years of his profession, Buffett produced common – non-compounded – returns of 23.5% annually. Or a complete cumulative return of 235.3% over that interval.

This implies within the first 10 years of our careers, I’ve produced returns, now 0.6 share factors LOWER annually, than Buffett did within the first 10 years of his profession. For this reason Buffett’s no 1 rule is to by no means lose cash.

For the primary 6 years of my profession in comparison with his, I used to be profitable… However after one down 12 months I’m more likely to keep completely behind Buffett now resulting from that one unhealthy 12 months… And since I nonetheless can’t discover something to purchase.

To my nice shock, we really caught as much as Buffett this 12 months… Final 12 months my yearly common returns lagged his by 0.75 share factors.

What does this 0.6 share level extra return per 12 months imply in greenback phrases over this era?

Assuming we each began with an asset base of $10 million at the start of the nine-year interval, I might have grown that $10 million into $78.62 million after 10 years.

Buffett would have turned his buyers $10 million into $82.54 million in that point.

For this reason each level of extra returns is so essential, and why you want to pay attention to any charges charged to your account by your cash managers.

Over a protracted interval – or on this case 9 years – ‘solely’ an extra 0.6 share factors annually would have made Buffett’s buyers $3.92 million additional when in comparison with my numbers.

And this additional illustrates the facility of compounding over time.

I defined why I’m now shedding to Buffett, and why I’m not fearful about this in additional element additional under.

However I’m nonetheless beating the market.  Though now barely resulting from its continued skyrocketing.

And Nonetheless Beating The Market

From 2012 via 2021, the Dow Jones Index produced a complete cumulative return of 160% for the ten years or 16% per 12 months on common.

The S&P 500 produced a 202% whole return for the ten years or 20.2% per 12 months on common.

And the Russell 3000 index – the closest factor to a small cap index – produced a 251% whole return or 25.1% per 12 months on common.

As a result of markets continued skyrocketing and the portfolios I handle persevering with to be in 60%+ money the final a number of years, the market has began to catch as much as me.

Outcomes have been nice to date, higher than I anticipated.

However there’s nonetheless a number of work and enchancment essential to proceed this, particularly with valuations nonetheless at or close to all-time highs.

And likewise due to mergers / gross sales / acquisitions, the portfolios I handle are down to five firms owned, and the portfolios are actually on common in 64.6% money.

Conclusion Ideas

We’re now shedding to Buffett, and the market is catching up… However the markets rise is unstainable…

During the last 120 years or so the market does about 10% 12 months on common… In the previous few years its crushed that as asset costs – and valuations – have continued to skyrocket.

I don’t count on us to beat Buffett any time quickly due the elements above. Right here’s what I stated about this within the 2017 and 2018 efficiency critiques…

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Worth investing works greatest with a falling or stagnant market, so with valuations at or close to all-time highs, and reaching new highs on an virtually each day foundation nonetheless, that is anticipated.

Except the market corrects someday quickly, I might count on Mr. Buffett and the market to proceed catching as much as or presumably passing us within the close to future.

As I stated final 12 months presently, barring a serious sell-off, I count on so as to add few to no firms once more in 2018.

It is because I’ll solely purchase one thing that meets my ultra-strict standards. By no means will I purchase one thing as a result of I haven’t purchased shortly.

This helps preserve us solely in nice firms and actual property investments and will assist us proceed producing distinctive returns over time.

It doesn’t matter what the market continues to do although over time, I’m assured we’ll proceed to beat the market by a large margin, and proceed to compound our wealth over time.

And with the market’s march ever larger, it’s allowed me to take the time to be taught different helpful enterprise abilities.

This can assist us much more over the long run as we get again into shopping for public firms inventory, and into shopping for personal companies and multi-family actual property investments as soon as we attain sufficient income and money movement.

Right here’s trying ahead to an excellent larger and higher 2018.

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That is nonetheless true as we speak…

With valuations both at their highest degree ever or their second highest degree ever nonetheless, relying on which metric you take a look at, I’ll probably proceed underperforming Buffett.

Thanks a lot to everybody who’s been part of this journey to this point, and please let me understand how I can proceed to enhance issues going ahead within the feedback under. I hope you be taught one thing from my expertise this now decade lengthy journey.

Right here’s trying ahead to an excellent higher 2022 to maintain this momentum going.

At all times in your service,

Jason Rivera