Sentence examples for fund grade from inspiring English sources

Many tear sheets will also provide the most recent Forbes fund grade, which is assigned only to those funds that have been in existence for at least three market cycles and which Forbes considers to be worthy of an investor's dollars (see The Rules for an explanation of the grading process).

Our fund grades reflect each fund's relative-to-market performance against its peers.

"When looking at fund grades, don't overlook cost," says John Chamberlain, senior programmer in Forbes' statistical department.

The National Rifle Association, through its Political Victory Fund, grades nearly every politician in America at the national and state-wide level.

The new section offers our readers access to a host of online and magazine fund stories, daily fund data from Lipper Analytical Services along with Forbes' proprietary fund grading system mutual fund tables from recent issues and a variety of interactive features to help mutual fund buyers better understand their investments.

We turned to the Forbes statistics department for a screen of those funds that perform best in bad times using Forbes' mutual fund grading system, which tracks stock funds through six market cycles dating back to September 1987 and bond funds from October 1993.

The Forbes fund-grading system forces you to think about risk.

This earned his fund a grade of A in down markets and F in up ones.

Forbes gives the fund a grade of "C" when markets are generally doing well and a "B" in down markets.

He also said that a $3500 investment would fund higher grade production that would allow him to sell to commercial entities like McDonalds.

IF the International Monetary Fund gave grades to its major borrower nations, Turkey and Argentina probably would have received mostly A's this year.