Question by Aceman: What are the Mutual Funds with highest returns? What are the best low-risk investments?

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Answer by pgcpaul
Take your two questions and combine them. What you really want to know is the excess return. In other words, given the volatility of a fund, how much did the fund return in excess of expectations. (Given: High volatibity funds are expected to retun more than low volatility)

Regretably, this forum makes it impossible to line columns up. Get your own report Do the free trial and call FastTrack on their 800 number for help.

I did the following with Investors FastTrack free trial at http://www.fasttrack.net for Fidelity equity funds.

The ExcessReturn (rightmost column) is the important one

….The Best…. Return SD ExcessRet
FLATX,Fidelity Latin America 79.16% 6.65 53.16%
FEMKX,Fidelity Emerging Markets 61.64% 4.11 45.18%
FSAGX,Fidelity Sel Gold Portfolio 72.54% 7.33 43.99%
FSLBX,Fidelity Sel Brokerage 53.65% 3.72 38.64%
…the worst . . .
FSVLX,Fidelity Sel Home Finance/ 6.92% 3.67 -6.75%
FSPFX,Fidelity Sel Paper & Forest 5.23% 8.98 -12.22%
FSCHX,Fidelity Sel Chemicals 5.35% 5.83 -12.74%

For more detail see the FastTrack web site.

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