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To: Les H who wrote (770)	10/2/2001 9:50:48 AM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Respond to of 29596

investors' profits from the 90s bull diminishing rapidly; T-bills would have provided a better return through the 90s interactive.wsj.com From October 1990 through the end of this September, mutual-fund investors put $1.46 trillion into U.S. stock funds, and that investment is currently valued at about $1.66 trillion. At the peak in August 2000, the investment was valued at $2.1 trillion. To replicate mutual-fund returns, Mr. Bianco created an index that is equal parts the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which tracks 30 big-company stocks, and the Russell 2000, an index of small-company stocks, on the theory that funds invest in the whole range of stocks. To put the numbers in perspective, Mr. Bianco also calculated how investors would have done if they had put their money into three-month Treasury bills, considered a riskless investment, instead of stock funds. For the first time in a decade, investors would have been better off in bonds, with a profit of $202 billion, Mr. Bianco says.