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"The successful long-term players have the long-term tech driven trends right, and COVID just accelerated and magnified the trends," an expert says.

Despite long-term outperformance, many of the leading 20 have suffered short-term losses.

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Home to more than $3 trillion, outperformance among the leaders comes with some caveats.

Aside from their rock-bottom fees, those with the largest gains have at least one commonality: asset allocation.

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The lineup of exclusively short-duration fixed-income products, taxable and municipal, still managed an overall gain.

The key is to think about what clients ultimately want to know, writes finance professor Derek Tharp.

The top 20 performers nearly doubled the gains of their peers over the period.

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The 20 mutual funds in this ranking outpaced broader markets over the past year with an average gain of more than 68%.

Over the past year, the 20 mutual funds in this ranking have an average gain of more than 100%. Their fees are also more than twice the broader industry.

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Here are the industry’s top 20, which brought in more than $700 billion in assets.

Over the past year, the lineup of stock and bond funds notched an average gain of more than 25%.

This group carried fees nearly three times the industry average.

These long-term leaders also generated gains of more than 76% over the past year.