Below is an update on how Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine’s list of how the top twenty-five mutual funds have faired through the current economic downturn. It hasn’t been pretty. The portfolio of 25 mutual funds are down an average of 17% for the past year, and only three of the funds are in positive territory. All of the data is through September 30th, 2008.
| US Stock Funds | ||||
| FUND NAME | SYMBOL | 1-YR | 3-YR | 5-YR |
| RETURN | RETURN | RETURN | ||
| Baron Small Cap | BSCFX | -21.44% | 0.53% | 6.88% |
| Bridgeway Aggr Investors 2 | BRAIX | -30.02 | -1.88 | 7.12 |
| CGM Focus | CGMFX | -7.41 | 16.87 | 23.76 |
| Dodge & Cox Stock | DODGX | -29.59 | -3.3 | 5.43 |
| Fairholme Fund | FAIRX | -8.76 | 7.98 | 14.18 |
| FBR Focus | FBRVX | -22.43 | 1.95 | 8.61 |
| Kinetics Paradigm | WWNPX | -34.23 | 0.13 | 10.75 |
| Legg Mason Opportunity | LMOPX | -47.76 | -12.84 | -2.5 |
| Longleaf Partners | LLPFX | -30.78 | -2.59 | 2.7 |
| Marsico 21st Century | MXXIX | -25.77 | 3.89 | 9.14 |
| Pimco CommodityRealRet Strat D | PCRDX | -4.18 | -0.04 | 10.24 |
| Selected American Shares S | SLASX | -21.4 | 0.19 | 6.39 |
| T. Rowe Price Equity Income | PRFDX | -20.08 | 1.06 | 6.58 |
| T. Rowe Price Growth Stock | PRGFX | -25.72 | -0.3 | 4.54 |
| Vanguard Primecap Core | VPCCX | -16.52 | 2.96 | – |
| Vanguard Selected Value | VASVX | -22.96 | -1.12 | 7.89 |
| International Stock Funds | ||||
| FUND NAME | SYMBOL | 1-YR | 3-YR | 5-YR |
| RETURN | RETURN | RETURN | ||
| Dodge & Cox Intl Stock | DODFX | -28.37% | 2.55% | 13.18% |
| Julius Baer Intl Equity II A | JETAX | -27.31 | 3.22 | – |
| Marsico Global | MGLBX | -20.96 | – | – |
| T. Rowe Price Emg Mkts Stock | PRMSX | -36.47 | 6.47 | 18.71 |
| Bond Funds | ||||
| FUND NAME | SYMBOL | 1-YR | 3-YR | 5-YR |
| RETURN | RETURN | RETURN | ||
| Dodge & Cox Income | DODIX | -2.26% | 2.26% | 2.58% |
| Fidelity Intermed Municipal Inc | FLTMX | 1.29 | 2.78 | 2.98 |
| Harbor Bond Institutional | HABDX | 2.17 | 3.66 | 3.84 |
| Loomis Sayles Bond | LSBRX | -13.44 | 1.16 | 4.86 |
| Vanguard Infl-Protected Secs | VIPSX | 6.16 | 4.24 | 5.01 |
| Data through September 30, 2008 | ||||
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