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Eureka! Precious natural resources make this fund a real find.

By Dian Vujovich

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Natural resource funds include hard assets from precious metals to iron, steel, copper and a host of other industrial metals, as well as energy, agricultural and other stocks that are commodities.

Charl Malan is one of the investment professionals managing the Van Eck Global Hard Assets Fund (GHAAX), which has been around since 1994. In March, 58 percent of the fund's assets were invested in energy stocks, with 15 percent in industrial metals and 11.5 percent in precious metals.

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