Warning sounded on lack of quality in fund ratings

Biases found in best buy lists

Carmen Reichman
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Fund rating lists are biased and often do not base their ratings on the quality of the underlying funds, a report has warned.

Best buy lists and fund rating agencies, often used by advisers to select funds for their portfolios, may be misleading as they do not always choose the funds based on their quality and longevity of returns, the research found. This means some clients may be put in funds that are destined to perform well in the short-term but lack other fundamental strengths that would allow them to function well over longer periods. The report by research consultancy Fundscape and Graham Bentley's gbi2 found deviations in the ratings of some funds and their projected returns over a ten-year horizon -...

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