Business Week's Guide to Mutual Funds (Business Week Guide to Mutual Funds)

The second edition of this in-depth look at mutual fund investing and mutual fund performance contains easy-to-follow charts, tables, graphs, and illustrations and updated scoreboards that show investors where to put their money, how long to keep it there, and when it's time to move it. These scoreboards highlight and graphically analyze the actual performance of more than 1,100 funds - equity, fixed-income, money-market, specialty, and closed end. They aim to provide accurate, at-a-glance performance ratings, as well as specific, current information on levels of risk, fund objectives, management, fees, key individual stock holdings. For added utility, tables benchmark the top-performing funds in each of the eight major fund categories, and for each of the specialized fund groupings. To enhance financial decision-making and provide critical investment perspective, this second edition also features an in-depth analysis of the world of mutual funds for the year gone by, and a critical look at what investors can expect in the coming year. It examines important financial trends, and pinpoints the most promising funds to watch.