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From: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
Newsgroups: net.invest
Subject: Re: want info on Dreyfus funds
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Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 14:25:02 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 20 14:25:02 1985
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In article <1361@hound.UUCP> ganns@hound.UUCP (R.GANNS) writes:
>Has anyone been monitoring any of the Dreyfus funds? ...
>... Does anyone
>have similar info on any of the other funds that they'd like to
>trade?  -- Rich ihnp4!hou2a!hound!ganns

The May 20, 1985 issue of Barron's had a very extensive section on
mutual funds and their performance ratings over a quarter, a year, 
5 years, 10 years, and 15 years. An initial investment of $10,000
was assumed, and the appreciation in share value was measured over
those time periods.

The best of the top 25 for the year 3/31/84 - 3/31/85 were:

	Pacific Horizon Agg Gro		+55%
	Prudential Bache Utilities	+51%
	Fidelity Sel Utilities		+36%
	Nicholas II			+36%
	Franklin Utilities		+34%
	Sequoia Fund			+33%
	Energy & Utility Shares		+33%
	Vanguarg Qual Div I		+32%


Profits for the various Dreyfus funds over the same period are:

	Dreyfus Leverage Fund		+18%
	Dreyfus A Bonds Plus		+15%
	Dreyfus Third Century		+15%
	Dreyfus Fund			+11%
	Dreyfus Special Income		+11%
	Dreyfus Growth Opportunity	(-4%)


Profits for Dreyfus funds over the 5-year period 3/31/80 - 3/31/85:

	Dreyfus Leverage Fund		+127%
	Dreyfus Fund			+122%
	Dreyfus Special Income		+103%
	Dreyfus Third Century		+ 87%
	Dreyfus A Bonds Plus		+ 80%
	Dreyfus Growth Opportunity	+ 77%

    
This issue of Barron's rates just about every mutual fund in existence
over these time periods. If anybody else out there wants the dope on
some other mutual fund, I'm sure I can find it for you.

By the way, the best mutual fund over the past 15 years,
10 years, and 5 years has consistently been Fidelity Magellan. In some
periods they were beat out by a few other funds, but on the whole they
have maintained consistently good performance, whereas some of the others
make a big splash one luck year and then disappear from the top 100.

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Dave Kirby    ( ...!ihnp4!akgub!cylixd!dave)

(The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect 
those of RCA Cylix. They may not even reflect my own.)


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