[quote=moneymaker]My wife got returns like that with the BAC stock I recommended to her.[/quote]
Single stock doesn’t matter unless you invest all your money in that single stock. I have stock picks myself that appreciate in that range but it doesn’t mean anything. You have to use the entire asset.
I didn’t expect 2012 to be a good year for investment but it actually was. There are very few asset class that didn’t appreciate over 10% last year, which include:
1. Precious metal
2. Safe bonds (e.g. German/US bonds)
3. Hedge funds (who would guess that?)
4. Commodity actually suffered a loss in 2012
