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3 Great Mutual Fund Picks for Your Retirement - February 10, 2020

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Our "Magnificent Retirement Mutual Funds" list includes some of the best managed and best performing funds around. If you're already invested in these, congratulations! But if you're just now discovering them, don't worry. When it comes to your retirement, it's never too late to start investing in the best.

The easiest way to judge a mutual fund's quality over time is by analyzing its performance, diversification, and fees. Using our Zacks Rank of over 19,000 mutual funds, we've identified three outstanding mutual funds that are ideally suited to help long-term investors pursue and achieve their retirement investing goals.

Here are the funds that have achieved the #1 (Strong Buy) Zacks Rank and have low fees.

City Natural Rochdale US Core Equity & Income Service Class (CNRVX - Free Report) : 0.78% expense ratio and 0.4% management fee. CNRVX is a Large Cap Growth option; these mutual funds purchase stakes in numerous large U.S. companies that are expected to develop and grow at a faster rate than other large-cap stocks. CNRVX has achieved five-year annual returns of an astounding 12.27%.

American Funds Washington Mutual Investors R6 (RWMGX - Free Report) . Expense ratio: 0.29%. Management fee: 0.23%. RWMGX is a Large Cap Value mutual fund, which invests in stocks with a market cap of $10 billion of more, but whose share prices do not reflect their intrinsic value. This fund has managed to produce a robust 10.92% over the last five years.

Oppenheimer Discovery I (ODIIX - Free Report) . Expense ratio: 0.67%. Management fee: 0.63%. Five year annual return: 11.74%. ODIIX is one of many Small Cap Growth mutual funds; these funds tend to create their portfolios around stocks with market capitalization of less than $2 billion.

So, there you have it - if your advisor has you invested in any of our "Magnificent Retirement Mutual Funds," they are certainly earning their keep. If not, you may want to look elsewhere.

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