1.   Beating the averages, over time, should be enough.

2.   Both of those beat the averages posted by mutual funds with similar rationales.

3.   By borrowing money to invest, funds improve their chances of beating the average in a rising market.

4.   His Fidelity Dividend Growth fund beat the market averages by a mile last year, and it is beating those averages by another half mile this year.

5.   In raw growth, SCI has outdistanced Loewen, and its shares consistently beat stock market averages.

6.   So if Shleifer and his mentors are right, there are opportunities to beat the averages.

7.   Soveiro is beating the averages again this year.

8.   The fact is that most fund managers fail to beat the averages.

9.   The inability of most funds to beat the averages has caused many investors to shift their money from managed funds into index funds, which are essentially unmanaged.

10.   These funds are not going to keep doing that well -- constantly beating the averages by so much that they stay atop the charts -- forever.