The Turnaround Letter's Performance Speaks For Itself

To ensure totally unbiased results reporting, The Turnaround Letter relies primarily on Hulbert Financial Digest to report on our performance results.

What is Hulbert Financial Digest? It is Mark Hulbert's online, interactive tool for researching and rating the performance of over 200 investment newsletters and advisors. Established in 1988, it is a completely independent, impartial, and authoritative rating service that arms subscribers with the facts about stock and mutual fund investment newsletter performance ... "the bible on who gives the best investment newsletter advice."  These tables reflect figures through March 2013.

The Hulbert Financial Digest compares The Turnaround Letter investment results against the Wilshire 5000.

% Gain/Loss

1 Year

3 Years

5 Years

10 Years

15 Years

The Turnaround Letter

23.00%

13.91%

8.98%

14.05%

9.77%

Wilshire 5000

14.15%

12.82%

6.27%

9.32%

4.72%

The Turnaround Letter ranking compared to the over 200 investment newsletters tracked by The Hulbert Financial Digest

Period

Ranking

Annualized Return

20 years

4th

10.9%

15 Years

3rd

9.8%

10 Years

12th

14.1%

5 Years 16th 9.0%

3 Years

21st

13.9%

1 Year 8th 23.0%

 

Year by year look at The Turnaround Letter returns compared to the Wilshire 5000

Year

The Turnaround Letter Returns

Wilshire 5000 Returns

1999

34.21%

23.56%

2000

-6.96%

-10.89%

2001

15.58%

-10.97%

2002

3.54%

-20.86%

2003

59.44%

31.64%

2004

28.58%

12.48%

2005

9.39%

6.38%

2006

26.25%

15.77%

2007

-2.21%

5.62%

2008

-55.38%

-37.23%

2009

75.62%

28.33%

2010

30.41%

17.16%

2011

-10.32%

.98%

2012 27.48% 16.06%

 

Turnaround Letter returns compared to the S&P 500

% Gain/Loss 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years 15 Years 20 Years
The Turnaround Letter 23.00% 13.91% 8.98% 14.05% 10.00% 11.30%
S & P 500 11.82% 11.42% 3.52% 6.09% 2.46% 6.38%

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