Some of the best performers for the bear market had an awful quarter and some of the worst performers during the bear market had a good quarter.

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You have to ask yourself why you should trust the fund company.

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This category has performed very well. It's one of the best and most innovative things the fund industry has come up with and partly that's because they do such a crummy job with the rest of their funds on taxes.

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And not just to look at those two options either, ... If they can't get good management at modest cost, then liquidation is a good option too.

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You have a very conservative strategy even though the bond stake isn't great. They're not going to stretch to produce yield.

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[Because these portfolios are so large, they have to spread their dollars across many different companies. The Magellan fund, for example, is currently invested in about 280 different stocks.] The big funds are very well managed and very well diversified, ... They might fall as hard as the S&P, but there aren't a lot of big disasters there.

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Generally, what you'll find is a pretty normal distribution (among socially responsible mutual funds). As far as I can tell, those screens don't have an impact positively or negatively on performance.

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Most active managers are investing in what they think is a sure thing rather than their best speculative ideas. Nobody is out there trying to be a hero right now.

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I don't see it having a big impact. The whole point of mutual funds is to avoid the Wall Street bias and most shops have their own in-house research. Big firms, like a Fidelity, have 200 professionals across the world so they never cared about the Street research to begin with.

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