No fool, John Hancock chose six of its better-performing funds for R share treatment.
The top performing funds and ETFs are best positioned in the current market environment.
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Low-performing funds tend to pay high commissions to brokers and this influences their recommendation.
Secondly, when administrators try to chase performance, that is, to change from lower-performing funds to higher, it backfires.
The median fund in this group had a 17% return, and even the five poorest-performing funds posted gains.
Generating great VC returns requires access to the small group of best-performing funds.
The system rotates monthly among the best performing funds and goes to cash if nothing is in an uptrend.
That puts it among the country's five best-performing funds, says Lipper Analytical Services.
Buying top performing funds, at or near the highs, and selling them at or near the lows after the inevitable disappointment.
The top performing funds hold stocks with healthy growth potential and resilience, making them the best bets in a bear market.
Top performing funds routinely gather the most assets as investors pile in.
Often these funds are not the lowest cost, best performing funds available.
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The study also found that under-performing funds had high marketing costs because they target unsophisticated investors that are more responsive to advertising.
Gil-Bazo and Ruiz-Verdu conclude that even after controlling for a host of fund characteristics, under-performing funds charge higher marketing and non-marketing fees.
Cendana seeks to be one of the largest LPs in each of its funds, and wants to concentrate in the best performing funds.
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Pension funds also have been emboldened by the steady rise of commercial-property values since 2009 and a winnowing of some of the worst-performing funds.
Even financial services companies with poor performing funds and high sales loads find ways to justify offering only their funds in the employee 401(k) plan.
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The new large fund shows the increasing trend towards top-tier venture firms raising large amounts of capital while lesser-performing funds face a much tougher fundraising environment.
Comcast shows up on a recent list of 10 Stocks of Top-Performing Funds in 2012, while GE is one of 20 Top Dividend Stocks to Own Until Retirement.
Dynavax shows up on a recent list of 10 Stocks of Top-Performing Funds in 2012 and was one of 13 Biotech Stocks Bought and Sold by Hedge Funds.
Among its best performing funds are the Virtus Multi-Sector Short Term Bond Fund run by Newfleet Asset Management and its Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund run by Vontobel Asset Management.
Reijtenbagh claims Credit Suisse exerted control over which funds it invested in and blames Credit Suisse for having Plaza invest in "poorly performing funds, " according to documents filed in bankruptcy court.
It may feel safe to put your money in the top performing funds in a bull market or into cash and bonds during a bear market, but both are actually riskier than they seem.
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Picking the top performing funds may seem intuitive but it turns out that not only is past performance a poor indicator of future performance, it may actually be an indicator of poor future performance.
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Everyone from mutual fund companies, to investment brokers, to the financial media has a vested interest in wanting you to believe that if you find out from them what some of the top performing funds are, you too can earn their skyrocketing returns or at least avoid the losses of others.
The best performing early-stage funds always do better than the best performing growth-stage funds because they get in earlier at lower valuations.
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The emerging-growth fund is among the top-performing equity funds of 2003, returning 24% since January.
His smaller leveraged fund was one of the best-performing hedge funds in 2012.
During the first eight months of this year American Century's Target 2025 Fund returned a scorching 28%, making it one of the best-performing bond funds available to individual investors.
To the extent that her causes interfere with getting higher returns from the best-performing investment funds, the trustees would be violating their duties and the law to take her bad counsel.
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