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CNN's Money Magazine's list of recommended funds is not about aiming for the highest short-term returns. Our lineup is designed to let you build a well-balanced portfolio that will help you reach your most important financial goals, like putting your kids through college, starting a business or achieving a comfortable retirement.

Absolute return funds allow your investments to keep growing regardless of whether the stock market is going up or down.

Most absolute return funds have a 70/30 strategy, with 70% invested in long stocks, and 30% used to short stocks that the fund manager thinks are overvalued and ripe for a fall.

Holding an absolute return fund can also protect your portfolio in the event of market turmoil

THE amount of cash held in money market funds at the start of 2009 exceeded the money in stock mutual funds for the first time in more than a decade, as shaken investors sought a familiar safe haven.

Yet 2008 may go down in history as the year that cast doubt on everything American investors thought they knew about money market funds.

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A Tale of Destruction
“Success Breeds Failure-The Plight of The Successful Money Manager”

There’s a rumor going around that the Mutual Funds are broken and just can’t work anymore, for a multitude of reasons. They’ve tried index funds, but these, too, have been less than impressive since they hit the street a few years back, and are now being enhanced... what does that say? Here are some new and/or forgotten ideas that can get your investment program back on track: