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To: steve in socal who wrote (9955)	1/11/2000 11:58:00 PM
From: Steve Grabczyk	Respond to of 18928

1999 Results: Well, I've only been doing this since Nov. 1st, so I suppose that I should have a 100,000% increase like everybody else out there during Nov/Dec! ;-) Alas! All of my AIM holdings are not in technology winners like Qualcom. For the exact 2 months, my total return (after commissions, plus dividends and interest) = +10.3% !!! No taxes, this is an IRA. Does this mean that annualized this works out to +61.8% ??? I hope so! At that rate you'd get a double every 14 months. I could handle that. Regards, Happy in Happy (It's on my map)

To: steve in socal who wrote (9955)	1/12/2000 7:21:00 AM
From: OldAIMGuy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18928

Hi Steve, Thanks for posting your results. Looks like in 1999 your higher risk "Buy & Hold" accounts paid out nicely while the more conservative Pure AIM did well but not quite up to the other account's performance. I guess that's why you wanted the AIM 2000 meeting in Las Vegas!! Seriously, most of the mail I get from people who ask why I use AIM point out this very thing. AIM doesn't do its best work in a Bullish year, but in a cycling one. At least it's not turning in embarrassing performance! When I look at my own graphs overall, I know that the stacked bar graph makes me feel much better than the one where I compare my performance to the NASDAQ Composite. However, I kicked the DOW's butt this year and I believe I beat the S&P 500 as well. Does anyone have the 1999 return for the S&P? That's a bit of data that I don't keep. My IRA return this year lagged my personal account's performance. However it's in a mutual fund that pretty much tracks the large cap averages. It's interesting to note that the IRA fund has never had as bad or as good a year as my personal account. Thanks, Tom