Best And Worst Funds: Mid-Cap Growth Style

By David Trainer:The mid-cap blend style ranks eighth out of the twelve fund styles as detailed in my style roadmap. It gets my Dan­ger­ous rat­ing, which is based on aggre­gation of fund rat­ings of 304 mid-cap blend funds as of Feb 13th 2012. Arti­cles on all style and sec­tor funds are here.

By David Trainer:The small-cap blend style ranks eleventh out of the twelve fund styles as detailed in my style roadmap. It gets my Dan­ger­ous rat­ing, which is based on aggre­gation of fund rat­ings of 681 small-cap blend funds as of Feb 14th 2012. Arti­cles on the funds in each sec­tor and style are here.

By David Trainer:The mid-cap value style ranks tenth out of the twelve fund styles as detailed in my style roadmap. It gets my Dan­ger­ous rat­ing, which is based on aggre­gation of fund rat­ings of 239 mid-cap value funds as of Feb 14th 2012. Arti­cles on the funds in each sec­tor and style are here.

By David Trainer:The all-cap value style ranks sixth out of the twelve fund styles as detailed in my style roadmap. It gets my Neu­tral rat­ing, which is based on aggre­gation of fund rat­ings of 288 all-cap value funds. Reports on the Best & Worst funds in every style and sec­tor are here.

By David Trainer:There are no Attractive-rated invest­ment styles. The pri­mary dri­ver behind the Neutral-or-worse rat­ings is poor port­fo­lio man­age­ment. Fund man­agers are sim­ply not pick­ing stocks well.

By David Trainer:The Util­i­ties sec­tor ranks eighth out of the ten major sec­tors as detailed in our sec­tor roadmap. It gets my Dan­ger­ous rat­ing, which, like my fund rat­ings, is based on aggre­ga­tion of stock rat­ings for each of 86 com­pa­nies in the sector.

By David Trainer:The Energy sec­tor ranks sev­enth out of the ten major sec­tors as detailed in our sec­tor roadmap. It gets my Dan­ger­ous rat­ing, which, like my fund rat­ings, is based pri­mar­ily on aggre­ga­tion of stock rat­ings for each of the 191 com­pa­nies in the sec­tor. The Energy sec­tor is near the bot­tom of the sec­tor bar­rel.

By David Trainer:The All-Cap-Blend invest­ment style ranks sec­ond out of the 12 invest­ment styles. It gets my Neu­tral rat­ing, which is based on aggre­ga­tion of fund rat­ings of all 661 funds in the style. Arti­cles on all style and sec­tor funds are here.