{"id":591,"date":"2011-01-04T18:57:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T23:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2011\/01\/roth_2011\/"},"modified":"2012-01-03T14:38:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T19:38:25","slug":"roth_2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2011\/01\/roth_2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Roth 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January is time to think about where to put my Roth IRA contribution. <a title=\"Roth 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2009\/12\/roth_2010\/\">Last year<\/a>, I split the contribution between Fidelity Contrafund and Vanguard Total International Stock Index. Previously I had done well with small caps and emerging markets so I was afraid they wouldn&#8217;t hold up. But actually those continued to do well (two different small cap funds were up 25% and 27% and an emerging market fund was up 20%) while large caps lagged (Contrafund earned 16%) and international stocks were troubled by Europe and the continuing recession (up 10%). Still, overall 2010 was a pretty decent year and just about everything did pretty well. I was thinking about looking for some mutual funds that lagged and therefore might do better next year, but I couldn&#8217;t really find anything that did that poorly. Japan has done really poorly for a long time, so I thought about putting money there, thinking they might be insulated from US and European economic troubles. I didn&#8217;t want to load up any more on small cap stocks, so in the end I put the whole thing into Vanguard Total International Stock Index again. Hopefully it will work this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January is time to think about where to put my Roth IRA contribution. Last year, I split the contribution between Fidelity Contrafund and Vanguard Total International Stock Index. Previously I had done well with small caps and emerging markets so I was afraid they wouldn&#8217;t hold up. But actually those continued to do well (two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2011\/01\/roth_2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Roth 2011&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}