Conrad's five-year average annual return through January 2002, according to the Hulbert Financial Digest, is a market-beating 11.9%.
For instance, Mark Hulbert of Hulbert Financial Digest fame has been tracking investment newsletter performance for more than 30 years.
Over the past five years, Hulbert Financial Digest says his stock picks outperformed the market, averaging a 9.8% average annual return.
Consult the Hulbert Financial Digest and order two to three stock tip newsletters that have beaten the market for long periods.
Mark Hulbert of the Hulbert Financial Digest has always said that in the long run market timing is a chump's game.
Special offer: The Hulbert Financial Digest ranks the Prudent Speculator No. 1 for performance over the past ten-, 15- and 20-year periods.
That was more than double the current level and close to the highest allocation that the Hulbert Financial Digest has ever recorded: 79.7%.
According to The Hulbert Financial Digest, Putnam's Turnaround Letter produced an annualized 16.3% total return for the ten years ending Dec. 31, 2001.
Special Offer: The Prudent Speculator is the top-performing newsletter for the past 10-, 15- and 20-year periods, according to the Hulbert Financial Digest.
Two other top-performing letters, as ranked by Hulbert Financial Digest, recommending the stock are Forbes Growth Investor and Dow Theory Forecasts.
The Hulbert Financial Digest ranks Investment Quality Trends number one in risk-adjusted performance over the last 15 years, returning an annualized 12.4% per year.
With a 19.1% average annual return, Collins' OTC Insight is the best-performing investment newsletter over the past 15 years, according to the Hulbert Financial Digest.
Mark Hulbert of the Hulbert Financial Digest looked at returns for the Dow Jones Averages dating back to 1896, when the benchmark was created.
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Happily, the scoreboard (The Hulbert Financial Digest rankings) confirms this claim.
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Mark Hulbert is the editor of the Hulbert Financial Digest, which tracks the recommendations of a wide range of investing newsletters written by self-appointed market experts.
According to the Hulbert Financial Digest, from 1980 to 2002, Value Line's model portfolios have averaged a 16.3% annual return, versus 13.2% for the Wilshire 5000.
Special Offer: Among mutual fund newsletters Equity Fund Outlook's 17.4% total return in the last 12 months beat all other fund letters according to Hulbert Financial Digest.
According to the Hulbert Financial Digest, Coolcat has returned 2.4% this year, handily outperforming the market, and since Dec. 31, 1998, the letter has returned 45.8% annually.
According to The Hulbert Financial Digest, dividend expert Investment Quality Trends has returned 17% in the past year, compared to the 11.5% gain for the Wilshire 5000.
The most recent edition of The Hulbert Financial Digest reports that the six model portfolios in David Fried's Buyback Letter gained an average of 38% in 2003.
Jim Collins ' OTC Insight model portfolios gained an average of 9.8% last month, after getting whacked hard last year--down 39.8%, according to the Hulbert Financial Digest.
His Buyback Index is up 195% since its inception in March 1997, and The Hulbert Financial Digest rates the newsletter as the number one stock-picking letter over a five-year period.
Since 1982, Brown's model portfolio of mutual funds has produced annualized returns of 15.5%, compared to 13.3% for the DJ Wilshire 5000 over the same time period, according to Hulbert Financial Digest.
According to Hulbert Financial Digest, Good Fortune's most aggressive portfolio, the Maximum Compounding Plan (MCP), produced a 19.4% annualized return since 1996, compared to the Wilshire's 6.3% gain during the same period.
Joseph Granville has been around for ages, but his Granville Market Letter's return shows an average of negative 22% a year for the last 22 years, according to the Hulbert Financial Digest.
According to The Hulbert Financial Digest, The Prudent Speculator has returned, on average, 18% over the past 20 years, while the best performing 15-year newsletter, OTC Insight, logged 17% a year.
Oberweis is also the editor of the Oberweis Report, which has returned a market-beating average of 3.7% a year for the five-year period ending Dec. 31, 2002, according to the Hulbert Financial Digest.
Moroney added three non-pharmaceutical health care stocks to Dow Theory's Focus List, which, according to the Hulbert Financial Digest, has returned an average of 11.6% per year over the five years ended Dec. 31, 2001.
This persistence at the bottom of the rankings is well illustrated by the adviser on the Hulbert Financial Digest's monitored list who, one year ago, was at the very bottom for trailing 10-year performance: Charlie Buck's Situational Strategies.
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