31.   So you might want to consider which funds are performing the best, and which alternative IDS funds you might transfer into without penalty.

32.   Steinhardt in particular had been dogged by the pending action, which added additional financial uncertainty in a year when his funds have performed miserably.

33.   Still, general equity funds are performing above their historic norms, Lipper said.

34.   Still, the guides do provide helpful insights into why a fund is performing the way it is.

35.   That might be a surprise for Dean Witter clients, whose funds have performed poorly even among its peer group.

36.   The asset-management industry is becoming increasingly competitive as investors pay closer to attention to how funds perform.

37.   The conventional wisdom is that the bigger a mutual fund gets, the harder it is for the fund to perform.

38.   The diversity in styles, sectors and company sizes helps the odds that the fund will perform well in all types of markets, White said.

39.   The fund has performed poorly for years, however, and Mathers wants his name removed from it.

40.   The inability of companies to sell new fund shares is coming at a time when the funds are performing quite well.