{"id":40,"date":"2025-12-31T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bucketofisa.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2025-12-31T20:05:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:05:38","slug":"starting-off-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bucketofisa.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/starting-off-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting off 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our portfolio value ended at <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-accent-color\">\u00a385,140.80<\/mark><\/strong> for 2025.<br>This was a return of just 4.4% for the year.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"458\" height=\"181\" src=\"https:\/\/bucketofisa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251231-EOY_Balance-BOI.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bucketofisa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251231-EOY_Balance-BOI.png 458w, https:\/\/bucketofisa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251231-EOY_Balance-BOI-300x119.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Compare that to the VUKE, which returned a fantastic <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-accent-color\">22.63%<\/mark><\/strong> growth for the year.<br>So, our portfolio has underperformed the UK index tracker ETF by a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We plan to be more active during 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our portfolio value ended at \u00a385,140.80 for 2025.This was a return of just 4.4% for the year. Compare that to the VUKE, which returned a fantastic 22.63% growth for the year.So, our portfolio has underperformed the UK index tracker ETF by a lot. We plan to be more active during 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bucketofisa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bucketofisa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bucketofisa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bucketofisa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bucketofisa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bucketofisa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/bucketofisa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bucketofisa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bucketofisa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bucketofisa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}