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November Breathes Life into Equities
An S&P news release said the average stock fund was ahead by 4.15% over the month, ahead of the 3.78% performance by the S&P 500 benchmark, but trailing the 5.31% November showing from Nasdaq.
During November, the average US growth fund returned
4.82% versus 4.04% for the average blend fund, and 3.96%
for the average value fund. Among the nine investment
styles, small-cap growth funds registered the strongest
returns in November, pulling ahead by 5.24%. Mid-cap
growth funds were the next best performer during the month,
gaining 5.06%, while large-cap value offerings registered
the smallest gain, returning 3.42%.
Year-to-date through November, growth funds have returned
on average 7.03%, putting them ahead of both value (+6.55%)
and blend offerings (+6.48%) for the year. The
performance of mid-cap growth funds leads that of all other
investment styles so far in 2005, with an 8.61% gain.
Mid-cap blend and mid-cap value funds have registered the
next highest returns, gaining 8.48% and 7.76% respectively
for the year ending November 30.
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