Nearly everyone’s a winner: Funds rose again last quarter

By Stan Choe, The Associated Press 
The good times keep rolling for fund investors.
Nearly every type of fund rose last quarter, whether focused on stocks or bonds, U.S. or foreign. Gains were so widespread that more than 7,000 of the roughly 7,600 funds that Morningstar tracks made money over the last three months. The nearly universal climb for funds means many retirement accounts and other portfolios are the largest they’ve ever been. The average 401(k) balance already had come int