The Halftime Club: A Record 220 Funds Were Cut in Half in 2000

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Questioning the Buy-and-Hold Strategy

Historically, the idea behind owning a stock fund was that it gave you relatively cheap access to a broad portfolio of stocks that are in an index or on a professional manager's list of favorite 100 companies. When you bought shares, you knew it would rise and fall with stock prices, but less so. Well, that's not necessarily the case anymore.

Between 1990 and 1998 a total of five U.S. stock funds gained more than 100% in any calendar year, according to Morningstar. Then in 1999 nearly 130 domestic stock funds joined the Century Club. Likewise, from 1990 to 1999 just four U.S. stock funds lost at least half their value in any calendar year. But last year, 23 funds joined the Halftime Club, and in the year ending March 31, a whopping 220 U.S. stock funds made the cut. ...