The Daily Screen: The Best Communications Funds

Like a droll and much-maligned presidential candidate we all know, owners of communications funds are wondering how much worse it can get.

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These funds typically straddle the technology and telecommunications sectors, fishing in both pools -- more than 44% of the average communications fund's money is invested in tech stocks, according to Morningstar. After posting boffo returns last year, telecom and tech stocks have come crashing down with skittish investors deciding that their thin-air valuations weren't necessarily warranted. Consequently, the average communications fund is down more than 25% since Jan. 1 -- dead last among all U.S. stock fund categories. ...