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3 Top-Performing Mutual Funds to Consider for Your Retirement Portfolio- April 01, 2020

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The funds in our "Magnificent Retirement Mutual Funds" list are among the best managed and best performing mutual funds available. If you are just finding out about our Top-Ranked Funds list, we welcome you!

How can you tell a good mutual fund from a bad one? It's pretty basic: if the fund is diversified, has low fees, and shows strong performance, it's a keeper. Of course, there's a wide range, but using our Zacks Rank, we've found three mutual funds that would be great additions to any long-term retirement investors' portfolios.

Let's take a look at some of the highest Zacks Ranked mutual funds with the lowest fees.

Columbia Acorn European Fund Z (CAEZX - Free Report) has a 1.19% expense ratio and 1.16% management fee. CAEZX is a Non US - Equity option, focusing their investments acoss emerging and developed markets, and can often extend across cap levels too. With yearly returns of 10.74% over the last five years, this fund clearly wins.

Principal Large Cap Growth I A (PLGAX - Free Report) : 1% expense ratio and 0.6% management fee. PLGAX is a Large Cap Growth mutual fund, and these funds invest in many large U.S. firms that are projected to grow at a faster rate than their large-cap peers. With yearly returns of 10.91% over the last five years, PLGAX is an effectively diversified fund with a long reputation of solidly positive performance.

Harbor Global Leaders Investor is an attractive large-cap allocation. HGGIX is a Global - Equity mutual fund. These funds invest in large markets like the U.S., Europe, and Japan, and operate with very few geographical limitations. HGGIX has an expense ratio of 1.25%, management fee of 0.75%, and annual returns of 11.87% over the past five years.

We hope that your investment advisor (if you use one) has you invested in one or all of the top-ranked mutual funds we've reviewed. But if that isn't the case, it might be time to have a conversation or reconsider this vitally important relationship.

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