Fund performance

“Some assets are cheap for a reason,” an expert says.

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.

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

Investors betting on a post-pandemic world are sending cash to riskier companies acutely sensitive to the economic cycle.

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

Investors are pouring money into U.S. listed products as stocks continue to reach all-time highs and the economic recovery heats up.

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

Everything from corporate earnings and inflation expectations to valuation gaps suggest the market rotation has only just begun.

The 20 funds in this ranking shed more than $793 billion over the period.

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

ARKK, along with other funds in her lineup, is in the green after logging its longest stretch of losses since the COVID 19-spurred meltdown last year.

Such products attracted more than $32 billion in January and February, by far their best start to a year.

This group carried fees nearly three times the industry average.

Spooked by rising bond yields, traders punished the pricier parts of the equity market last week, including many of the fund's top holdings.

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

Just one of the leading 20 mutual funds and exchange-traded products eked out a gain this past decade.

The fund is joining a minority group in the $5.9 trillion ETF universe.

The strategy has become the least-loved of the smart beta universe after failing to protect against market swings last year.

Funds at the top have notched triple digit returns in the last year.