A Look Back At Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine’s Top 25 Mutual Funds

by Hank on October 24, 2008

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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