Six top-performing gold funds
What's been hotter than gold during the last five years? Some gold funds, believe it or not. Here are the top funds of the past five years.
Van Eck International Investors Gold
5-year avg total return: 29.15%
Expense ratio: 1.43%
Asset size: $1.8 billion
It's no surprise that gold mutual funds have been on a tear recently. But not all funds are created equal. Some funds, such as Van Eck's International Investors Gold fund (INIVX), far outshine even gold's lustrous 23.7% annualized rise over the past five years.
Its 29% annualized five-year returns, including reinvested dividends, make it the top-performing gold fund since 2005. Longtime manager Joe Foster, a geologist by training, has his biggest bets in miners Kinross Gold, Agnico-Eagle Mines, and Goldcorp.
All fund data provided by Morningstar.
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Last updated December 09 2010: 5:17 AM ET
