But there's a moral for investors: Buy a fund with a long-term record and plan on staying for a long time.
She recommends investors take a look at Kansas City-based American Century Heritage (TWHIX), a mid-cap growth fund with a good long-term record.
These events hurt the long-term record for stocks, giving bonds an edge.
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His long-term record remains intact: The Thomas White International Fund delivered a 6.3% annualized return over the past five years, against 3.7% for the MSCI World.
In something of the manner of John Neff, who delivered high returns for years at Vanguard Windsor by owning out-of-favor banks and carmakers, Thompson has amassed an exceptional long-term record with his unloved stocks.
Another Brown favorite: Fidelity Worldwide (FWWFX), a broadly diversified global growth fund that Brown describes as a fairly conservative fund with a decent long-term record of 16.7% per year on average over the last five years.
Yet, when it comes to business applications, a long-term track record is vitally important.
Steve Romick, who has an outstanding long-term track record, grew his FPA Crescent Fund by 12.72% per year from 1995-1999.
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The study shows that by paying more attention to asset prices, central bankers can actually improve their long-term inflation record.
Each had a proven long-term track record of consistent investment success.
But I think there are some rare cases of companies whose long-term track record indicates you might be wise to consider letting them hold onto your cash.
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Some companies are highly desirable because of their long-term track record of successfully delivering profits from a portfolio of iconic brands and businesses that consistently generate cash.
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The fund you selected had a solid long-term track record.
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That seems likely, given the long-term problems of record budget deficits and other problems that will take years to resolve.
My strategy is to ignore the headline explanations and find a good fund manager who has a long-term, verifiable record of outperforming the market.
Companies like Illinois Tool Works ( ITW), 3M ( MMM) and Kimberly-Clark ( KMB) have a record of rewarding long-term shareholders with rising payouts.
Fiscal responsibility not just because it is right for the long-term, to deal with Labour's record debt, but because it is right for the short-term, to deal with Labour's recession by giving people and businesses the confidence to invest again and get the recovery going.
At the Rosewood Crescent, housekeepers take pictures of long-term guests' vanities to record and replicate the preferred placement of toothbrushes and cologne bottles.
The gap between Spanish and German long-term borrowing rates also reached a record high, as did the cost of insuring against a Spanish sovereign default.
And if you think about Florida's long-term history, if you look at the record that Lawton and Buddy have made for the last eight years, I hope you will encourage everybody in this congressional delegation to put partisanship aside and vote for our education agenda.
But the game has not yet been around long enough to assess its track record for longer-term prediction, says David Pennock, a senior researcher at Yahoo!
Long-term unemployment (40 weeks or longer) is at record levels.
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Other technology used to record the event will have a more long-term application.
Why wouldn't we want to put that on an electronic medical record that will reduce error rates, reduce our long-term cost of health care, and create jobs right now?
Last month, scientists at the US National Snow and Ice Data Center said Arctic summer ice was almost 30% below the long-term average, and predicted 2007 would show the lowest ice cover on record.
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Drug industry mergers have a decidedly mixed track record, as many deals have done little to boost long-term growth.
And with a long-term investment of resources (and, presumably, the successful wooing of more record labels), the Google Music vs. iTunes tilt could eventually rival the current iPhone vs.
An unofficial audit was carried out in 2007 by Sir Derek Wanless, who had led a review into the health service's long-term financing needs that underpinned the decision in 2002 to carry on spending at a record rate for a further five years.
Sabatini defended the FAA's record before Congress, noting that the agency is working toward a long-term rate of four fatalities for every 100 million passengers, an incredibly low number.
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