@Charles I am revising the May 2 post I made yesterday during my daily MFO visit. It was made shortly before I left on a cross country plane ride and it didn't really make my point. Here is a second effort.
The fund family rankings are a great idea! Its important to point the way towards fund families that are successful at helping mutual fund investors achieve their long term goals.
The Turner Investment screen prints you posted above make sense to me. My concern still relates to the proposed “Fund Family Score Card”. The intended audience is not clear to me. That audience might be significantly broader than the audience that routinely views the detailed screens. If so, then some sort of additional data or some kind of qualifying statement in the main body of the score card might be warranted.
Here are my reasons for continuing to think that way. Per my original example, I am looking again at the Turner Investment data. Here are the number of funds that have beaten their respective category averages over various time periods:
Life time: 5 of 6. (This is the basis of the Top Fund Family ranking.) Those funds are:
TSCEX +2.
1, Originated in
1994
TMGFX +
1.5, Originated in
1996
TMCGX +9.5, Originated in
1998
TSPEX +2.8, Originated in 2009
TMSCX +
10.0, Originated in 20
11Here is out performance data based on the other relevant MultiSearch time periods:
Full Cycle 4 (09/00 to
10/07):
1 of 3 (TMCGX +7.7) originated in
1998
Full Cycle 5 (
11/07 to 03/
15: 0 of 3
Last 20 years:
1 of
1 (TSCEX +
1.6) originated in
1994
Last
10 years:
1 of 3 (TSCEX +0.2) originated in
1994
Last 5 years:
1 of 4 (TSPEX +2.
1) originated in 2009
Last 3 years: 2 of 6 (TMSCX +
14.4, TSPEX +2.4) originated in 20
11Lifetime fund out performance appears in all cases to be based on an initial surge of out performance by each fund. Is this characteristic representative of a "superior" fund family that has been around for over two decades? (I realize the jury is still out on TSPEX and TMSCX.)
Part of this thought circles back to my original comment about Fund Turnover (survivor-bias). I am remembering back to the turn of the century and new Turner funds like TTPOX, TGTFX, TBTBX, and TIWCX. None of those funds are still around. (I wondered if enough long-term survivor-bias data was available to flesh out this characteristic.) But, this issue does relate to the characteristics of a superior fund family.
That's enough....The fund family ranking will definitely be a plus as far as I am concerned!