The fund has returned 2.00 percent over the past year, -3.41 percent over the past three years, 0.29 percent over the past five years, and 2.54 percent over the past decade.

A picture may be worth a thousand words but a performance graph can be misleading, warns Robert Keavney. He points out ways fund managers and others can create an artificial impression of investment ...

The fund has returned 1.75 percent over the past year, -3.65 percent over the past three years, 0.06 percent over the past five years, and 2.29 percent over the past decade.