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index to the market basically hugs 1.00, suggesting the sector never really outperforms or underperforms by very much for very long. By contrast, you can see a wicked period of outperfor- mance followed by a gut-wrenching decline for the MSCI Information Technology index. It won’t surprise you to learn these coincide with the >

mance. But the end result for both of these active funds is substantially better than the lines for, say, the MSCI Energy index or the MSCI Health Care index. Precious Metals & Mining’s relative dive the past three years has been stun- ning. The fund is off 54.5% over the past three years versus a gain of 50.8% for Total Stock Market. While the fund

run-up to the tech bubble and its sub- sequent bursting. Third, notice that the lines for the actively managed Energy and Health Care funds have fairly steady inclines, meaning that over time they’ve outper- formed the market without lots of nasty back-tracking. Not always, of course. Just look at Energy’s recent perfor-

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