A brief note on our mutual fund charts and seasonality

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A brief note on our mutual fund charts...

The aim here is to simply supplement some of our index charts with mutual funds that have very specific themes. The objection could be raised that since these funds are actively managed, the charts could be more related to the skill of the various fund managers than to the seasonal tendencies of various stock groups. That's a fair objection, though we note that, in general, fund managers don't do a particularly good job of outperforming the stock groupings that they are chartered to buy and sell.