I'm happy as long as it's above 10%, content with 5-7%, anything less not so much...

 

BTW I haven't contributed to this particular one in about 5 years.

 

around 7-8% for the year. I've changed up my contributions lately, I've got 40% of my current contributions going into european pacific stuff. thats one of the strongest performers avaliable for my plan.

 

who are your plans with? I have fidelity

 

i should get one

 

same here

what are the majority of your contributions going to? index, european?

 

I don't really understand all this. I have a 403(b) account that I put in 4% and the company matches up to 4%

 

403b is similar to 401k, but is for public education employees (see: Willma). Both accounts are (usually) invested into various mutual funds which fluxuate based on the fund performance and the market as a whole. How much you contribute and how much the company matches is just a set percentage of your gross pay. When you look up your account, it should give you a YTD fund performance figure, and/or various other rates of return.



Currently mine is around 8% YTD. It was up to 12% about a month ago but the market took a shit these last two weeks.



:edit: sorry to bump this, but I was banned when the topic came up h:

 

I just played around with my 401K a little today, I moved a nice portion of my already invested funds into the euro pacific. I'm looking to get my money to grow a little faster and the euro pacific is still performing very well.

 

I'm down h: Oh wells...