Hulbert Financial Digest "Would Be" Rankings
Mark Hulbert began monitoring investment newsletter performance in 1980. Currently, Hulbert Financial Digest and Hulbert Interactive monitor the performance of about 190 stock and mutual fund investment newsletters.
Hulbert Financial Digest maintains computerized model portfolios for the newsletters it monitors, and Hulbert Interactive shows the relative rankings of the newsletters for 10-year, 5-year, 3-year, and 1-year periods each month. In December each year, Hulbert Financial Digest publishes an Honor Roll of newsletters which have above average performance in both up and down markets. Of the 73 newsletters that Hulbert tracked for the entire period from August 31, 1998, through November, 2011, only nine made the 2012 Newsletter Honor Roll, which Hulbert Financial Digest published in its December 2011 issue.
Although Fidelity Select Fundranker’s performance is not yet monitored by Hulbert Financial Digest and Hulbert Interactive, it stacks up very well against newsletters that are monitored.
Here are returns and Hulbert Financial Digest would be7 rankings for the Nasdaq Composite Index (as measured by Fidelity’s Nasdaq Composite Index Fund), the S&P 500 Index (as measured by Fidelity’s Spartan 500 Index Fund - Investor Class), and Fidelity Select Fundranker’s Top Eight Model Portfolio as of 1/31/12 for 10-year, 5-year, 3-year, and 1-year periods. For comparison, returns and actual rankings for the nine newsletters on Hulbert’s 2012 Honor Roll (designated Honor Roll A through I) as of 1/31/12 are also shown:
As of |
10-Year |
5-Year |
3-Year |
1-Year |
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1/31/12 |
Rank |
Return1 |
Rank |
Return1 |
Rank |
Return1 |
Rank |
Return2 |
| Honor Roll A6 | 90 | 2.1 | 122 | (2.9) | 132 | 5.7 | 119 | (2.4) |
| Honor Roll B3 | 24 | 7.6 | 42 | 2.9 | 51 | 19.0 | 67 | 2.2 |
| Honor Roll C4 | 25 | 7.2 | 94 | (0.5) | 61 | 18.1 | 98 | 0.3 |
| Honor Roll D4 | 20 | 8.2 | 16 | 6.3 | 16 | 27.1 | 33 | 5.2 |
| Honor Roll E6 | 13 | 10.4 | 28 | 4.8 | 38 | 21.0 | 38 | 4.9 |
| Honor Roll F5 | 16 | 9.1 | 6 | 8.6 | 45 | 19.8 | 5 | 12.9 |
| Honor Roll G6 | 9 | 11.8 | 29 | 4.6 | 20 | 25.4 | 80 | 1.5 |
| Honor Roll H4 | 77 | 3.2 | 114 | (2.2) | 93 | 14.0 | 142 | (5.6) |
| Honor Roll I4 | 18 | 8.6 | 24 | 5.1 | 59 | 18.1 | 16 | 8.8 |
| Nasdaq Composite7 | N/A | N/A | 33 | 3.5 | 22 | 25.0 | 33 | 5.2 |
| S&P 5007 | 75 | 3.4 | 87 | 0.2 | 50 | 19.1 | 46 | 4.1 |
| Fundranker3,7 | 25 | 7.5 | 80 | 0.8 | 82 | 15.8 | 125 | (3.4) |
| Total # of newsletters | 111 | 154 | 163 | 183 |
Here are the same returns data in chart form. Note that this comparison of Fidelity Select Fundranker is against some of the best newsletters that Hulbert Financial Digest and Hulbert Interactive monitor:
1annualized returns for 10-, 5-, and 3-year periods
2cumulative returns for 1-year period
3mutual fund newsletter
4stock newsletter
5stock and bond newsletter
6stock and mutual fund newsletter
7would be rankings
