10 Best-Performing Stocks Defy Prediction

10 Best-Performing Stocks Defy Prediction:

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BOSTON (TheStreet) -- Mutual fund investors, emotionally whipped by the drumbeat of bad news for the past decade and the losses posted by some of the most respected funds, missed out on big winners.

That's because they pulled an estimated $132 billion from U.S. mutual funds in 2011, the fifth straight year of withdrawals, according to the Investment Company Institute, a trade group that's tracked the industry since 1984. After the dot-com bust of 2000 to 2002, investors again endured a crash in late 2008 that wiped more than 40% off the value of their portfolios in six months. Many burned by the dot-com crash never trusted the markets again.

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