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Remember, buyer beware, and check with Morningstar Guide to Mutual Funds (a ~~Consumers~~ Reports of ~~Mutual~~ ~~Fund~~ investing with ratings and comparison) online through your local public library, but three, diversified, low-cost, socially responsibly, mutual funds, that top my list for investing for retirement, are

Remember, buyer beware, and check with Morningstar Guide to Mutual Funds (a "Consumer Reports" of mutual fund investing with ratings and comparison) online through your local. public library, but three, diversified, low-cost, socially responsibly, mutual funds, that top my list for investing for retirement, are

TIAA CREF Social Choice Equity Fund - TICRX

Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund Investor Shares - VFTSX

Domini Social Equity Fund - DSEFX

Vanguard Health Care fund finishes in the top 1% of all mutual funds after 15 years, and is very low cost, and has very low turnover, but is now closed. It's also buys similar stocks that a socially responsible mutual fund would buy. T. Rowe Price Health Sciences Fund - PRHSX - is performing remarkably these days, but as a health care fund, it isn't diversified - check it out in Morningstar.

Vanguard Health Care fund finishes in the top 1% of all mutual funds after 15 years, and is very low cost, and has very low turnover, but is now closed. It also buys similar stocks that a socially responsible mutual fund would buy. T. Rowe Price Health Sciences Fund - PRHSX - is performing remarkably these days, but as a health care fund, it isn't diversified, and hence more risky (the big concern in investing) than the above diversified, socially responsible, mutual funds - check it out in Morningstar.

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