My 401k is up 7.85% year-to-date, but you have to bear in mind that 39% of it is invested in money markets so it would have been much higher if I had NOT been moving some of my profits to a safer place these past few years as I approached retirement. Also about 10% is in bonds, which only leaves about half the total invested in equities.
As for my wife's 401k, which is nearly 95% equities (the total value of her account is only about 1/6 of mine so we've always played it more aggressively), it's up 13.47% year-to-date.
Add on to that the better than 15% that the value of our house has gone up (according to Zillow.com) since January and I'd have to say that we're doing fairly well during this so-called 'Obama recovery' 
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