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Is Your Interactive Brokers Portfolio Underperforming?
Interactive Brokers is a low-cost brokerage built for active and self-directed traders, with access to global markets and complex instruments.
Pure Benchmarks ranks real Interactive Brokers portfolios against thousands of other verified investor portfolios across nine standardized risk categories, from 100% equity to 90% fixed income. Every portfolio is recategorized daily from actual end-of-day holdings, and Community Nests shows exactly where your Interactive Brokers portfolio ranks against other real Interactive Brokers clients in the same risk category — built entirely from verified portfolio data, with no firm that manages money able to see any data point on the platform.
Why your Interactive Brokers portfolio can lag a pure index baseline
The default-settings drag. Large brokerages often route uninvested cash into a default sweep that earns close to nothing, while in-house managed solutions carry their own expense ratios. Left on default settings, the gap against a pure index baseline widens quietly over time.
What to review on a Interactive Brokers portfolio
- Check whether frequent trading or complex instruments pull the portfolio away from a simple index baseline.
- Look at how the self-directed allocation has tracked a diversified index over time.
Illustrative 10-year comparison — a standard managed portfolio versus a pure index baseline. Figures are illustrative only.
| Year | Standard managed portfolio | Pure index baseline | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | $105,200 | $107,000 | -$1,800 |
| Year 3 | $116,400 | $122,500 | -$6,100 |
| Year 5 | $128,700 | $140,300 | -$11,600 |
| Year 7 | $142,300 | $160,600 | -$18,300 |
| Year 10 | $165,100 | $196,700 | -$31,600 |
See exactly where your Interactive Brokers portfolio stands.
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See Your Free Benchmark ReportThis page is an information baseline for comparison only. It is not investment advice and not a recommendation to buy, sell, replace, or transfer any specific asset, account, or firm. Past performance does not guarantee future results. All figures shown are illustrative.