Value Funds

THE irony couldn't have been lost on the 350 people who gathered for the Value Investing Congress West in Hollywood last week. Normally, a crowd is exactly the last place a serious value investor wants to be. True value typically is found in investments that are hidden gems, things that are underappreciated and relatively unwanted. But in today's streaking stock market, there's very little that no one wants. And that's the problem for the value camp. Shares of Contango Oil & Gas Co.

These tables rank the top-performing stock and bond mutual funds for the second quarter of 2008 for each of the main investment categories as defined by research firm Morningstar Inc., which provided the data for these tables. The tables of top-performing funds are followed by individual performance figures for 5,400 mutual funds, organized by fund company. Stock funds Most of the mutual funds that invest in the stocks of U.S. companies are sorted by Morningstar into nine broad categories.

These tables rank the top-performing stock and bond mutual funds for the second quarter of 2008 for each of the main investment categories as defined by research firm Morningstar Inc., which provided the data for these tables. The tables of top-performing funds are followed by individual performance figures for 5,400 mutual funds, organized by fund company. -- Stock funds Most of the mutual funds that invest in the stocks of U.S. companies are sorted by Morningstar into nine broad categories.

These tables rank the top-performing stock and bond mutual funds for the second quarter of 2009 for each of the main investment categories as defined by research firm Morningstar Inc., which provided the data for these tables. The tables of top-performing funds are followed by individual performance figures for 5,400 mutual funds, organized by fund company. -- Stock funds Most of the mutual funds that invest in the stocks of U.S. companies are sorted by Morningstar into nine broad categories.