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This is Motleyful Answers. I'm Allison Southwick. joined as always by Robert Brokamp, personal finance expert here at the Motley Fool.

Hello, bro.

Hello, Allison.

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So, bro, what's up?

Well, Allison, very soon you'll start receiving those year-end account statements from your

brokerages, your 401K, all your investment accounts, if you haven't already started to receive

those. And you'll get an idea of how your portfolio fared in 2018. And you'll want to know

how you did on an absolute basis, because obviously

how much your portfolio grows or doesn't grow will have an impact on when you can accomplish

your financial goals, when you can retire, how much you're going to have for the kids,

college educations, all that type of stuff. But you also want to know how you did on a relative

basis compared to relevant benchmarks,

so you can understand why your portfolio did what you did and if you need to make any changes.

So I figured we'd spend this time doing a bit of an investment autopsy on 2018.

Okay.

So people can understand what did well or not as well.

Look at their own returns and see how they compare.

So let's start with the major indices. And by the way, all the numbers I'm going to give

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