{"id":183,"date":"2010-05-29T22:47:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T22:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investing.kubasek.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2012-01-02T12:15:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T12:15:25","slug":"excellent-mutual-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Excellent Mutual Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While at the Barnes &amp; Noble today, I got drawned in by a title in US World &amp; Reports: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/money\/personal-finance\/mutual-funds\/articles\/2010\/05\/19\/the-100-best-mutual-funds-for-the-long-term.html\">The 100 Best Mutual Funds for the Long Run<\/a>. Sure enough, I found a few funds that I think are top quality.<\/p>\n<h2>Large Cap Value<\/h2>\n<p><?php fund(\"The Yacktman Fund\", \"YACKX\") ?><\/p>\n<p>Comparing it to Fidelity Contrafund, which is considered one the top funds, I can see why Yacktman is on top: 3 year return of 8.9% is much better than -0.2% for the Fidelity fund.<\/p>\n<h2>Foreign Large Cap Blend<\/h2>\n<p><?php fund(\"Sextant International\", \"SSIFX\") ?><\/p>\n<p>Very good returns. Better than Marsico Global, also a top rated fund.<\/p>\n<p><?php fund(\"Fidelity Canada\", \"FICDX\") ?><\/p>\n<p>Very good returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While at the Barnes &amp; Noble today, I got drawned in by a title in US World &amp; Reports: The 100 Best Mutual Funds for the Long Run. Sure enough, I found a few funds that I think are top quality. Large Cap Value Comparing it to Fidelity Contrafund, which is considered one the top funds, I can see why Yacktman is on top: 3 year return of 8.9% is much better than -0.2% for the Fidelity fund. Foreign Large Cap Blend Very good returns. Better than Marsico Global, also a top rated fund. Very good returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[85,91],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investing","tag-investing-3","tag-mutualfunds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}