Zacks Mutual Fund Rank Continues Identifying Winners

Chicago, IL, April 02, 2018 -- In its fourth year of live performance the Zacks Mutual Fund Rank has built upon its prior three years of success with another successful year in predicting relative returns of Mutual Funds during the year 2017.

“This is the fourth year of live performance of the Zacks Mutual Fund Rank which classifies funds into categories and predicts relative performance within each category.” says Adam Cohen, EVP of Zacks Institutional Services division.

“We are confident that over the next decades the Zacks Mutual Fund Rank will deliver the same type of stellar performance as has the Zacks Stock Rank – whose top portfolio outperformed the S&P 500 in 23 out of the last 28 years.”

Zacks provided updated Mutual Fund Rankings to Zacks clients at the beginning of each quarter going back to 2013.  These rankings were able to separate funds with similar objectives into quintiles such that, during all four years of live performance, Zacks Rank #1 Mutual Funds outperformed Zacks Rank #5 funds in all main asset classes over this span.

The Zacks Mutual Fund Rank, which was formulated during 2013, is based on the findings of academic finance that although the equity markets may be highly efficient, Mutual Fund performance is influenced by organizational, institutional and behavioral factors and can be predicted. 

For more information about Zacks Mutual Fund Rank– GO TO http://www.zacks.com/funds/mutual-funds

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Terry Ruffolo
Zacks Investment Research
312-265-9213
[email protected]

Adam Cohen, EVP
Zacks Institutional Services
312-265-9227
[email protected]