Top Performing Specialty Funds of 2009

March 5th, 2010 at 9:10 am Posted by 
Dear Students

As part of The Dean’s commitment to teach the CollegeStock Community about everything stock market related, The Dean will be teaching all of his students about mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and other types of stock market investments.

Here are five of the top performing specialty funds of 2009:

$IYW
iShares Down Jones U.S. Technology (NYSE: IYW)
57.6% return in 2009
$1.3 billion in assets

$RWX
SPDR Dow Jones International Real Estate (NYSE: RWX)
43.3% return in 2009
$1 billion in assets

$IGE
iShares S&P Norther American Natural Resources (NYSE: IGE)
39.2% return in 2009
$1.6 billion in assets

$XLY
Consumer Discretionary Select Sector (NYSE: XLY)
38.9% return in 2009
$1.4 billion in assets

$PFF
iShares S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index (NYSE: PFF)
31.5% return in 2009
$2.8 billion in assets

Happy Trading, The Dean



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