Article: Don't Be Afraid of Aggressive Mutual Funds -- Yet.

LOOKING at the stock market these days, you can scare yourself right out of your aggressive growth mutual funds.

Everybody from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on down worries that Internet-related stocks are at the center of a speculative bubble that could burst at any tune.

In one fit of nerves in mid-March, the composite index of the Nasdaq market, where many computer and telecommunications stocks trade, plunged 11.7 percent in three and a half days.

At that rate, you could have a full-blown bear market in two weeks.

This tests the resolve of people who call themselves long-term investors. After an exhilarating ride up in a ...

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