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Caution costly as markets log gains

Funds growing, investors fewer

By WHITNEY KISLING BLOOMBERG NEWS

Posted: December 25, 2012 at 4:27 a.m.

Americans have missed out on almost $200 billion of stock gains as they drained money from the market over the past four years out of worries over the financial crisis.

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