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It’s time for the SEC to open the books of fund companies so investors know where their billions and billions of dollars are going.

The failure of mutual fund performance is beyond argument. The failure, in fact, is abject. And it has…

The failure of mutual fund performance is beyond argument. The failure, in fact, is abject. And it has devastated the potential capital accumulation of fund investors.

One example makes the point: During the past 20 years, the stock market itself has provided a compound return of 16.7% per year, wh

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