Three Stock Funds Near 10-Year Positive Runs

SGOVX has not performed worse than 5% on the plus side over the past nine calendar years, although the string looks virtually certain to end in 2008.

Among SGOVX's biggest stock holdings are Sodexo of France, Pargesa Holding of Switzerland, Shimano of Japan and France's Sanofi-Aventis (SNY Quote).

The JPMorgan Mid Cap Value Fund has achieved its remarkable nine-year string of positive years by investing in real estate investment trusts and stocks with market capitalizations between $1 billion and $20 billion at the time of purchase.

JAMCX's top portfolio holdings recently included solid mid caps such as Genuine Parts (GPC Quote), Williams (WMB Quote), American Electric Power (AEP Quote) and PG&E (PGC Quote).

Matthews Asian Growth & Income fund is geographically well diversified in its target region. Its biggest holdings include Singapore Press Holdings, Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM Quote) and HSBC Holdings ADR (CHT Quote).

THREE EQUITY FUNDS WITH SOME HOPE FOR 10 STRAIGHT UP YEARS
NAME	First Eagle Overseas Fund A	JPMorgan Mid Cap Value A	Matthews Asian Growth & Income Fd
TICKER	SGOVX	JAMCX	MACSX
TheStreet.com RATINGS GRADE	B	C+	B+
Investment Objective	Non-US Equity	Mid Cap	Non-US Equity
Total Net Assets ($Mil)	7,586.6	4,341.0	1,539.8
Maximum Initial Sales Charge (%)	5.00	5.25	0.00
Minimum Initial Investment ($)	2,500	1,000	2,500
Total Expense Ratio (%)	1.12	1.25	1.15
Year-to-Date Total Return (%)	-22.91	-30.13	-33.65
2007 Total Return (%)	8.39	2.36	21.54
2006 Total Return (%)	22.29	16.73	23.38
2005 Total Return (%)	16.92	8.87	15.76
2004 Total Return (%)	21.83	20.31	21.44
2003 Total Return (%)	41.41	30.07	38.51
2002 Total Return (%)	12.53	2.68	9.01
2001 Total Return (%)	5.35	9.49	14.29
2000 Total Return (%)	5.68	35.28	3.73
1999 Total Return (%)	33.19	13.87	48.88
Needed for Positive 2008 (%) *	29.72	43.13	50.72
* Percentage return needed between Oct. 4 and year-end 2008 to achieve positive full year. Data as of Oct. 4, 2008. Source: TheStreet.com Ratings and Bloomberg For more information, check out an explanation of our ratings.

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