I've been forwarding this to all my friends. This is the first time I've seen Mutual Fund research in a easy, streamlined format. Who would've thunk that U.S. News would be such a useful source for my investing needs? Hopefully you guys end up doing more of this stuff.
investingeekof CA2:43PM May 19, 2010
Your effort to gather and reconcile a variety of rating sources is interesting, but giving points for the lowest ratings results in grade inflation. Why not give zero points for the lowest scores from each rater? For example, a Zacks strong sell would get zero rather than 20. You could give 25 for sell, 50 for hold, 75 for buy and 100 for strong buy. This would give a better distribution between zero and 10. As it is, a truly lousy fund that gets the lowest grade from every rater would get 2.0 points out of 10 (or 20 points on a 0-100 scale). Also, why not just make the score range 0 to 100?
George Indykeof VA1:12PM April 28, 2010
As one example, Janus Global Life Sciences Fund (No Load) is scored an 8.0, by your rankings, in the Health catagory. Yet when one searches the Health catagory for the top-ranked funds it doesn't show up with any rank - it shows as "N/A" - at the bottom of the list. You have to select a different class to find an actual numerical ranking. That is STUPID. If one class of a fund has a numerical score that is the one that should show up in the rankings, otherwise it looks like the fund is not ranked, or no good, when in fact it may be.
What is the reasoning behind this flawed methodology?
Joeof WI12:23PM April 16, 2010
I tried to use your ranking of fund RYSEX. Your score is 7.5. Why is it so small and isn't listed in your best fund list?
Why Zacks offers strong sell while Street offers strong buy?
Zacks says of prediction for three months ahead. Is it true?
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