![]() ![]() “Investment Reporter,” 15-year annualized return: 11.9%. He recommends companies that have recently experienced a period of bad news and whose stock prices are depressed. Like Buffett, editor George Putnam is a contrarian. “Turnaround Letter,” 15-year annualized return: 12.1%. In comparing his return to Buffett’s, don’t forget that Buffett’s return is also dependent on margin - funded by the substantial float generated by his insurance operations. Editor Nate Pile is an aggressive trader, sometimes employing margin in his recommended model portfolios. “Nate’s Notes,” 15-year annualized return: 13.4%. ![]() (I did the calculations, as Buffett listed calendar-year returns.) Listed below are the 10 Hulbert Financial Digest-monitored advisers who have bettered that return, in descending order of performance. None of them makes you wait a whole year, as Buffett does, to get updated insights.Īccording to Buffett’s latest report, the 15-year annualized growth rate through 2014 of Berkshire Hathaway’s In addition, each of those 10 can boast of something else besides superior performance: They are published at least monthly, if not more frequently. Of the 200 investment letters whose performance is monitored by the Hulbert Financial Digest, no fewer than 10 have outperformed Buffett over the past 15 years - since the top of the Internet bubble, in other words. This is more than just a historical curiosity. (Dow Jones also is the publisher of MarketWatch.) The Wall Street Journal itself began as an investment letter in 1883, when Charles Dow and Edward Jones inaugurated “The Customer’s Afternoon Letter.” Dow and Jones changed their service’s name to Wall Street Journal in 1889. How far back does that tradition extend? In the U.S., it dates at least to the 1800s. ![]()
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