1.   Some bond funds performed far better than others last year.

2.   Below is a list of how some leading tech stock funds are performing this year, according to Lipper Analytical.

3.   Bowers found no significant correlation between how well a fund performed and how often its manager changed.

4.   But the funds performed so badly, dead last in the field, that the same fees measured as a piece of the profit looked dismal.

5.   But the Oppenheimer fund actually performs like a small company stock fund, the Northfield study found.

6.   By limiting assets, he says his stock funds will perform better.

7.   Consider how funds have performed over the last five years, a period dominated by large-capitalization stocks and by growth investing instead of a value approach.

8.   Even in indexing, all funds do not perform equally.

9.   Few funds have performed as well over time as the Vanguard index stock fund.

10.   Find out how each fund has performed over at least five years.