March 2015 Financial Asset Roundup

Here are my current financial assets as of the market close on March 10th, 2015:

Asset	Feb 2015	Mar 2015	Change
Checking	2,164	1,309	-855
Money Market	48,693	52,851	4,158
Savings Bonds	93,340	93,507	167
Treasury Bills	0	0	0
CDs	49,838	49,966	128
Brokerage	137,206	132,175	-5,031
401k	134,184	132,922	-1,262
Roth IRA	102,110	101,211	-899
SEP IRA	493,787	497,510	3,723
529 Savings	118,059	118,643	584
Total Assets	$1,179,381	$1,180,094	$713
			0.06%

The S&P 500 has been volatile since the last update, falling 1.18% (despite hitting all time highs) during that time:

(chart courtesy of yahoo.com)

On the jobs front, the unemployment rate for February fell to 5.5% with strong hiring as 295,000 new jobs were created. Oil prices fell slightly from about $50 to almost $48.

On the financial front, my assets have once again reached a new all time high, barely surpassing the previous high from February despite the dip in the stock market. That was helped somewhat with my final 2014 SEP IRA contribution, which I took care of before my 2014 S Corp tax returns were filed. I also have a Penfed 3.5% APY 5 year CD from March 2010 maturing soon and may once again make a mortgage prepayment due to a lack of better options for the money. To compound matters, I also have some profit in my S Corp that I can use to take a distribution, so I have to find a home for that cash also (a nice problem to have).

As for the non-financial, I won a Microsoft Surface 2 tablet via a winning game piece in a box of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes and it just arrived!

@KFR The Microsoft Surface 2 I won via a box of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes has arrived! 7+ week impatient wait. :p pic.twitter.com/0fEcoTmldI

— Frugal Frugalson (@FrugalFrugalson) March 11, 2015