The following are 16 mutual funds with consistently poor records.

Some (asterisk next to them) also sock you for high ongoing expenses. Yet every name in the group still boasts more than $100 million of assets—an amazing testimony to investor inertia.

Cut these clunkers loose now:

1. AIM Basic Value
2. AIM Select Equity*
3. AllianceBernstein U.S. Gov’t
4. Alpine U.S. Real Estate
5. American Funds New World
6. Calvert Social Investment—Balanced*
7. Credit Suisse Large Cap Growth
8. Dreyfus Emerging Leaders
9. DWS Europe Equity
10. Federated American Lenders
11. Gabelli ABC
12. Mellon Int’l
13. Neuberger Berman International
14. Pacific Capital Growth & Income
15. Putnam Capital Appreciation*
16. Senbanc

* Expense ration above average for fund’s category

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