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Welcome to Be Wealthy and Smart. I'm Linda P. Jones, America's Wealth Mentor.

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On today's show, we're going to go into part two of the Investors Business Daily Best Mutual

Funds Report. Last time in the last podcast I talked about large company stock funds that have outperformed

the S&P 500 on a 1, 3, 5, and 10 year basis.

If you haven't listened to that yet, go back and listen to that one and hear about one stock fund in particular that had spectacular outperformance but you had a report of

the top five that are doing spectacularly well. Like in last time's report the funds in this report have to have a minimum of $100 million in assets,

so they have to be of a significant size.

They have to have beaten their benchmark for the past one, three, five, and ten years, which is a feat that only 22% of all mutual funds can claim.

So they're in the very top, almost one-fifth of all mutual funds.

The category we're going to talk about today is called the International Stock

category. And they're using a benchmark to measure all of these top funds against called the MSCI

IFA, which is the Morgan Stanley Capital Index Europe, Australia, Far East, benchmark. So it's just the benchmark that these kinds of

international and global funds are measured against. The Eva Index on a one-year

total return basis was up 25.03 percent,

on a three-year basis was up 7.8 percent,

on a five-year average total return was up 7.9 percent,

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