They provide the best possible total return, whether the market is up or down.

In the last 12 months, he added, total return has been 14.29 percent.

This means that the total return over the 2-year period is the same as if there had been 20% growth each year.

It is the only month of the 12 with a negative total return.

Only 287 of the funds produced a better total return.

Over 15 years, for example, its total return is 1,721.83 percent.

A similar scale is used to measure performance in terms of total return.

Counting it would bring the total return to 11.23 percent.

Total returns during that time are more than 1,000 percent.

The fund had total returns of 21.7 percent in 2004.