[Epps is a BigFatPurse contributor on the topic of Permanent Portfolio. This is his maiden post. In future posts, he will share his experience on how the portfolio has served him!] Here is a table of the annual returns from a Singapore Permanent Portfolio for the last 9 years. This table shows average returns of 7.4% per annum excluding interest and dividends. All returns are in terms of Singapore dollars. Data is taken on first trading day of each year. (Click to enlarge) This theoretical Singapore Permanent Portfolio returns is based on: 25% stocks: Singapore Straits Times Index (STI), 25% long term government bond: iShares Barclays 20+ Yr Bond ETF (TLT), price converted to Singapore dollars according to prevailing exchange rate. TLT was used because there was no 30-year Singapore Government Bond prior to 1 April 2012, 25% gold: gold price calculated in Singapore dollars using ......