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Thank you all for attending our year-end webinar! Here is link to video recording. All fund risk and return metrics, ratings, and analytics were uploaded to MFO Premium on New Year’s Day, reflecting performance through December. Similar to October, we used Lipper’s Friday data drop, which was last business day of year, to get an early peek at …
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All fund risk and return metrics, ratings, and analytics were uploaded to MFO Premium today, 31 October, Halloween 2022. We used Lipper’s Friday data drop to get an early peek … and today markets seemed tame enough, so numbers should be pretty close to month’s end. October was a decent one for equity funds, especially value. The …
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Thank you once again for participating in our Mid-Year Review and site update webinar! Here is link to chart deck. And here’s link to video recording. Enjoy!
All fund risk and return metrics, ratings, and analytics were uploaded to MFO Premium Sunday, 3 July, reflecting performance through June 2022. [For the record, May performance was uploaded Sunday, 5 June.] June’s dismal returns ushered in a new bear market, unfortunately, based on the S&P 500 retracting 20% from its previous high of December 2021. This occurrence marks the end …
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All fund risk and return metrics, ratings, and analytics were uploaded to MFO Premium Tuesday, 3 May, reflecting performance through April 2022. After a brief respite in March, markets continued to sell off in April, especially tech equity and nearly all bonds. The chart below once again depicts monthly and year-to-date (YTD) performance of the 11 State Street Sector ETFs, along …
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Only 3 Multi-Sector Income mutual funds above water this year: RCTIX, EIXIX, DLDFX. Each have a healthy dividend and held-up pretty well in March 2020. MFO’s Dennis Baran profiled River Canyon Total Return Bond Fund Institutional Class (RCTIX) in 2019. David Sherman of Cohanzick Management is one of the subadvisors on DLDFX.
Yesterday, Sunday, 3 January, all fund risk and return metrics, ratings, and analytics were uploaded to MFO Premium, reflecting performance through December 2020. Given how far markets tumbled in March, most funds ended the year in positive territory, some very positive.
Yesterday, Sunday 6 December, all fund risk and return metrics, ratings, and analytics were uploaded to MFO Premium, reflecting performance through November 2020. November marked the second time this year that the S&P 500 posted a greater than 10% return. The other month was April, the beginning of the current bull market … 8 …
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On Sunday 8 November, all fund risk and return metrics, ratings, and analytics were uploaded to MFO Premium, reflecting performance through October 2020. MFO Premium launched five years ago this month. In David’s “Invitation To Join” letter of 19 November 2015, he highlighted three special characteristics the new site offered subscribers: It’s interesting: …
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All fund risk and return metrics, ratings, and analytics were uploaded to MFO Premium on this past Sunday, 4 October, reflecting performance through September 2020 or 3rd Quarter. The MFO Fund Family Scorecard reveals 31 families (like Winning Points, Huber, Saratoga) where every fund has underperformed since launch by an average of -3.2% per …
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