Table: How The Big Funds Fared

Cover Story: Where To Invest '96: The Investment Spectrum: Mutual Funds

TABLE: How The Big Funds Fared

ASSETS TOTAL

FUND BILLIONS RETURN*

FIDELITY MAGELLAN $53.8 38.2%

INVESTMENT COMPANY

OF AMERICA 24.1 30.0

WASHINGTON MUTUAL

INVESTORS 17.0 39.3

VANGUARD INDEX 500 16.6 37.6

FIDELITY PURITAN 15.2 20.0

TWENTIETH CENTURY

ULTRA INVESTORS 14.8 40.8

FIDELITY CONTRAFUND 14.5 36.3

FIDELITY GROWTH &

INCOME 14.0 33.4

VANGUARD/WINDSOR 13.7 31.2

INCOME FUND OF AMERICA 13.0 27.6

*Appreciation plus reinvested dividends and capital gains before taxes, Dec.

30, 1994 - Dec. 8, 1995

DATA: MORNINGSTAR INC.