A year later

Here is data from www.wsj.com taken from Lipper that shows returns for different mutual fund sectors.  These are not indices, these are returns for actual mutual funds that you and I are invested in.  Pretty amazing how we all thought the end of the world was coming last year at this time.  And now it looks like we are having a truly great year in all markets--bonds, stocks, and international.  Just another cycle of greed, to panic and possible to greed again.  A cycle we have seen many times before and I'm sure we'll see many times again.  Here are the numbers--check out the year-to date especially:

Lipper Indexes

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Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Lipper indexes are based on the 30 largest funds by asset size within the Lipper objective and do not include multiple share classes of similar funds.

		% CHG FROM
Equity Fund Indexes	Last	1-day	1-wk	YTD
Large-Cap Growth	3125.72	1.50	-0.38	28.70
Large-Cap Core	2303.40	1.42	-0.49	21.19
Large-Cap Value	10145.71	1.40	-0.52	18.84
Multi-Cap Growth	2872.12	1.74	-0.44	30.70
Multi-Cap Core	7674.91	1.44	-0.55	27.42
Multi-Cap Value	4282.24	1.36	-0.63	20.91
Mid-Cap Growth	786.29	1.52	-0.58	34.39
Mid-Cap Core	767.09	1.38	-0.97	31.36
Mid-Cap Value	1153.38	1.32	-0.79	31.89
Small-Cap Growth	551.80	1.87	-0.81	30.62
Small-Cap Core	455.24	1.73	-0.94	28.32
Small-Cap Value	739.29	1.83	-1.24	27.30
Equity Income Fd	4469.77	1.34	-0.52	17.06
Science and Tech Fd	706.80	1.72	-0.48	45.51
International Fund	1107.56	2.03	-0.11	31.22
Balanced Fund	5874.01	0.91	-0.21	18.92
		% CHG FROM
Bond Fund Indexes	Last	1-day	1-wk	YTD
Short Inv Grade	298.04	0.11	0.28	9.10
Intmdt Inv Grade	380.03	0.05	0.37	13.10
US Government	510.48	-0.12	0.26	4.30
GNMA	575.38	0.03	0.32	7.96
Corp A-Rated Debt	1348.79	-0.01	0.24	13.84

Source: Lipper