Over the five years through June 2001 the mix of stocks and bonds, managed by Alex Brown, Scudder, Franklin Templeton and others, has averaged a 10.6% return annualized, against 11.1% for ABS' Callan CustomizedBenchmark.
As for the performance freaks, you can enable Ultimate mode which is right at the bottom of the "ASUS customized setting" menu, but we didn't notice any performance gain during our benchmark tests.