What are the best companies to invest in mutual funds?

I like Legg Mason Partners Funds (formerly called Smith Barney) because they have a long history of success. In the past 25 years, the aggressive growth fund has perform an average rate of 14%.

If you prefer companies that has perform pretty well in the past 5 years, I would pick Fidelity Funds, but they are pretty young and they seem to heading in the right direction. Only reason they are not in my portfolio because they have no 10 year past performance.

im no investor, but IBM stocks are always rising these days

Through my employer, we invest through TIAA CREF.

Vanguard family of Mutual (no-load) Funds have been in top 10
"consistant" Funds for the past 10 years.
The reason for this is that they have no-loads, low operating expenses, and (no 12b-1) fees.

There are many mutual funds which are really good. It is up to you to choose the one which fits your personality. There are diffrent kinds of mutual fund such as Aggressive,( Value, Growth,) Ultra Aggressive, defensive etc. If your go to Morning star site and in quick rank you will see some of the best performing once includeing some which invests oversees. So if you feel like that in short run U.S Economy is not going to perform very well then invest in those funds I believe fudelity and T Rowe Price has really good oversees unds. but there is one fund which invests in domestic companies abd which I reallt like is Bridgeway Funds go to their web sites and check out their funds ....

WHY WOULD YOU INVEST IN SOME THING THAT IS NOT GUARANTEE TO BE THERE WHEN YOUR 75 DON'T COUNT ON THAT IN 2017 THERE WILL BE NO RETIREMENT LETS TALK

If you believe in the indexing approach then Vanguard is clearly the best. For managed funds T. Rowe Price and Fidelity are good - low expenses and good track records. Some other "fund families" have a few good funds - Third Avenue - Real Estate and Small Cap funds.

Stay away from any loaded funds. Avoid Janus, Oppenheimer, Legg Mason, and Dreyfus.