How To Avoid the Worst Sector Mutual Funds 3Q17
The large number of mutual funds has little to do with serving investors’ best interests. Here are three red flags investors can use to avoid the worst mutual funds.
How To Avoid the Worst Sector ETFs 3Q17
The large number of ETFs has little to do with serving investors’ best interests. Here are three red flags investors can use to avoid the worst ETFs.
How To Find the Best Sector Mutual Funds 3Q17
Finding the best mutual funds is an increasingly difficult task in a world with so many to choose from. How can you pick with so many choices available?
How To Find the Best Sector ETFs 3Q17
Finding the best ETFs is an increasingly difficult task in a world with so many to choose from. How can you pick with so many choices available?
Cheap Funds Dupe Investors – 3Q17
Investors are good at picking cheap funds. We want them to be better at picking funds with good stocks. Both are required to maximize success.
Health Care Sector Mutual Funds Enter the Danger Zone
70% of Health Care sector mutual funds are rated Unattractive or Very Unattractive. This particularly risky fund allocates heavily towards speculative stocks and charges high fees based on past performance that managers are having an increasingly difficult time replicating.
Look to the Sky for Industrials Sector Value
Our Robo-Analyst technology drills down to the stock level of all 7,000+ ETFs and mutual funds under coverage. In the process, we uncovered an attractive ETF that traditional, backward-looking fund research overlooks.
3Q17 Sector Ratings Recap
At the beginning of each quarter, we rank each sector from best to worst with our Sector Ratings Report. The following is our analysis of each sector for the third quarter of 2017.
Utilities Sector 3Q17: Best and Worst
The Utilities sector ranks fifth out of the ten sectors as detailed in our 3Q17 Sector Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. It gets our Neutral rating.
Telecom Services Sector 3Q17: Best and Worst
The Telecom Services sector ranks ninth out of the ten sectors as detailed in our 3Q17 Sector Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. It gets our Dangerous rating.
Materials Sector 3Q17: Best and Worst
The Materials sector ranks seventh out of the ten sectors as detailed in our 3Q17 Sector Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. It gets our Neutral rating.
Information Technology Sector 3Q17: Best and Worst
The Information Technology sector ranks second out of the ten sectors as detailed in our 3Q17 Sector Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. It gets our Neutral rating.
Industrials Sector 3Q17: Best and Worst
The Industrials sector ranks fourth out of the ten sectors as detailed in our 3Q17 Sector Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. It gets our Neutral rating.
Health Care Sector 3Q17: Best and Worst
The Health Care sector ranks eighth out of the ten sectors as detailed in our 3Q17 Sector Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. It gets our Dangerous rating.
Financials Sector 3Q17: Best and Worst
The Financials sector ranks third out of the ten sectors as detailed in our 3Q17 Sector Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. It gets our Neutral rating.
Energy Sector 3Q17: Best and Worst
The Energy sector ranks last out of the ten sectors as detailed in our 3Q17 Sector Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. It gets our Very Dangerous rating.
Consumer Staples Sector 3Q17: Best and Worst
The Consumer Staples sector ranks first out of the ten sectors as detailed in our 3Q17 Sector Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. It gets our Very Attractive rating.
Consumer Discretionary Sector 3Q17: Best and Worst
The Consumer Discretionary sector ranks sixth out of the ten sectors as detailed in our 3Q17 Sector Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. It gets our Neutral rating.
Sector Ratings For ETFs & Mutual Funds: 3Q17
At the beginning of the third quarter of 2017, only the Consumer Staples sector earns an Attractive-or-better rating. Our sector ratings are based on the aggregation of our fund ratings for every ETF and mutual fund in each sector
How to Avoid the Worst Sector Mutual Funds 2Q17
The large number of mutual funds has little to do with serving investors’ best interests. Here are three red flags investors can use to avoid the worst mutual funds.