FYI: U.S. investors embraced domestic issues on strong corporate profits and economic
data—pushing equity funds to their second consecutive quarterly gain—and
generally ignored trade-war concerns during the quarter. For Q3 2018 the average
equity fund posted a return of 3.10%, with Lipper’s U.S. Diversified Equity Funds
macro-classification (+5.17%) posting the strongest quarterly return of the four
major equity groups for the first quarter in three.
Regards,
Ted
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