Hulbert Rating

The Hulbert rating is an accountability rating for investment newsletters, giving investors the low-down on which newsletters are doling out words of wisdom...and which are selling snake oil. Like a Yelp, but for investment newsletters.

Hulbert ratings are determined by hypothetical investment portfolios, which each take the buying and selling advice of each investment newsletter. While this sounds nice, it’s good to know that the Hulbert rating was originally published in Hulbert Financial Digest, which died quietly after some acquisitions. Still, Hulbert Ratings LLC was created to pick up where the digest left off, continuing to report Hulbert ratings.

Have the Hulbert ratings found anything? After all, it’s been doing this since 1980...

Yep, the Hulbert ratings show that most investment newsletters (following active portfolio management advice) do worse than the market. So statistically...you're probably better off to pull a Warren Buffett and play the long game.