Top 100 Mutual Funds (26-50)
Below we present numbers 26-50 of the top 100 mutual funds in the United States ranked by 5-year return. The 5-year annualized yield is also given. The table is pre-sorted by annual return. In this grouping starting with number 51 are several of the best mutual fund companies such as Fidelity and ING. But more interestingly is that the best mutual fund companies do not necessarily correlate with their offerings being ranked amongst the top 100 mutual funds.
| Fund Name | 5-yr Annualized Yield |
| Fidelity Advisor Latin America A | 21.76 |
| Evergreen Precious Metals A | 21.64 |
| DWS Latin America Equity S | 21.58 |
| Fidelity Advisor Latin America T | 21.43 |
| DWS Latin America Equity A | 21.24 |
| Fidelity Advisor Latin America C | 20.85 |
| Tocqueville Gold | 20.83 |
| Fidelity Advisor Latin America B | 20.82 |
| Evergreen Precious Metals B | 20.77 |
| Evergreen Precious Metals C | 20.76 |
| ING Russia I | 20.54 |
| ING Russia A | 20.52 |
| DWS Latin America Equity C | 20.25 |
| DWS Latin America Equity B | 20.23 |
| U.S. Global Investors Gold and Prec Mtls | 20.01 |
| OCM Gold Investor | 19.91 |
| GAMCO Gold I | 19.82 |
| GAMCO Gold AAA | 19.68 |
| GAMCO Gold A | 19.67 |
| Columbia Greater China Z | 19.63 |
| Evergreen Emerging Markets Growth I | 19.49 |
| Columbia Greater China A | 19.34 |
| Fidelity Select Gold | 19.21 |
| Fidelity Advisor Gold I | 19.20 |
| Evergreen Emerging Markets Growth A | 19.18 |
Load vs No Load
Not all of the products offered in the list are no load index funds so expect fees to eat into your high returns that can add up over time.
A Comment on Gold and Precious Mineral Funds
Investors will note that for the past 5 years, among the 26th to 50th of the top 100 mutual funds of the best mutual fund companies are several funds that deal in gold, precious metals (most likely encompassing gold and gold-like metals), and special minerals (which most likely is a term signifying gold) much like the top 25. As mentioned already, gold has done exceptionally well for the past 5 years due to some historically unique factors. The conditions for the trend cannot be assumed to last forever into the future. Some are even suggesting that gold is due for a correction because it has been brought to extreme, stratospheric heights that was a result of paranoia that grew during the financial and real-estate related catastrophe of the last few years (2007-2009).
A Comment on Russia Funds
Once again the other class of funds that stands out in the 26th to 50th of the top 100 mutual funds is the one that invests in the emerging economies of Latin America, China and also Russia. While China and Latin America grew because of fundamental improvements in productivity and strengthening of individual firms, it has argued that growth in Russia was predicated more on high oil prices. It may be that any funds investing in Russian dealt with firms that had a large fraction of revenue coming from fuel, oil and petroleum.
A Comment on China and Latin America Funds
On the other hand, China has experienced phenomenonal growth in GDP at the rate of 8-10% annually for several years now. As we continually emphasize, this growth cannot be expected to continue into the future. Most worryingly is the unrest that is said to be developing from pressure of migrant workers moving from countryside to cities, as well as income inequality, and political instability. Many of Latin America's governments are in theory democracies, but political instability and strong-man politics continues to be a problem. For example, Venezuela is a democratic government, but in 2008 its leader Hugo Chavez ordered the nationalization of the Venezuelan steel mill Sidor, causing some concern that investments in private firms are at danger of loss due to nationalization.