There's no denying this: Tracking what you paid for each share of a stock or mutual fund--so you can calculate your taxable gain when you sell--is so tedious that a lot of folks just guess.

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Like its namesake navigator, the Fidelity Magellan fund has seen its share of glory, though for the past several years the once mighty mutual fund has been a study in mediocrity.

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While it has a 15% market share in traditional fixed-annuity life insurance products, it has less than 2% of Germany's mutual fund market-and virtually nothing in equity-linked variable annuities.

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