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Mutual Fund Observer's premium site provides fund screening tools, analytics, and ratings updated monthly, plus additional commentary to complement our main site.

MFO Premium search tools feature:
  • Lipper Global Data Feed and Lipper Global Flow Feed.
  • U.S. Mutual Funds, ETFs, ETNs, CEFs, and Insurance Funds.
  • All share classes, survivors only.
  • Extensive risk and return metrics back to 1960.
  • Key US index and allocation performance back to 1926.
  • Numerous evaluation periods, including lifetime, YTD, multi-year, multi-month, decadal, calendar decade, plus full, bear, bull and other unique market cycles.
  • Tailorable, sortable, and exportable result tables.
  • Storable Watchlists, Searches, and Preferences.
  • A suite of analytics: Flows, Correlation, Rolling Averages, Up/Downside Capture, Calendar Year and Fixed Period Metrics, Batting Averages, Benchmark Comparisons, Trend and Momentum, Lipper Leaders, Category Averages and Ferguson Metrics.

MultiSearch, our main search tool, will sort through thousands of funds based more than 300 screening criteria, seriously. Its Pre-Set Screens provide an easy way to get a quick overview on markets and notable funds.

Other tools include Fund Family Scorecard, Dashboard of Launch Alerts, Portfolios, Category Averages, MFO Charts, and Quick Access Analytics, plus our legacy QuickSearch, Risk Profile, Dashboard of Profiled Funds, Great Owls and Three Alarm Funds.

Performance updates are posted monthly, typically on first Saturday of the month. Month to date performance and other ancillary info, like holdings, are updated weekly. Flows are updated 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month.

User feedback drives near continuous site upgrades, so if you have any issues, see something amiss, or have suggestions for improvement, please email (admin@mfopremium.com). We will address soonest.

What's new?

As of Saturday, 14 December 2024:
  • Month-ending November ratings updated with Refinitiv's 13 December datadrop.
  • Fund flows also updated through 6 December.
  • Introduced Price-Based Metrics, as descrobed in our December commentary.
  • Expanded Fund Family Scorcecard, including family annual revenue based on assets under management and expense ratio.
  • Introduced Quarterly Metrics tool, as descrobed in our October commentary.
  • Restored ETNs and Trading Funds (Dedicated Short Bias and Equity Leverage) to database and ratings.
  • Refinements to Calenday Year category averages and flow sums.
  • MFO now rolls up all flow data to the oldest share class level. Flows of other share classes remain as reported by Refinitiv.
  • New blog post with link to mid-year review webinar. Posted chart deck and session video on home page.
  • Add annualized return to TipTool in Flow and Returns chart tools for periods greater than 12 months.
  • Expanded flow analytics to Calendar Year tools: fund flows, total net assets, ratings, category breakouts.
  • Added new tools to assess fund flows: Flow, a four-in-one combo chart, Flows, and TNA (total net assets). All can be found via the updated Analytics user interface in the navigation bar, or via the Analyze buttons in MultiSearch.
  • Updated Datatables, the main engine of our site, with its newest release (dt2.0), a major upgrade as described here by the good Allan Jardine. You will find sutble style changes across all the search tools.
  • Posted links to 2023 Year-End Review presentation and video recording, both here on home page.
  • Established @MFOPremium YouTube Channel, which will host instructive videos to demo site features. The first is Demo Total Return Chart Tool.
  • Enhanced MFO Charts with legend placement option and no minimum life limitation ... chart display period no longer limited by youngest fund.
  • Several display periods, including Since COVID, as described here.
  • Weekly display periods: Month-To-Date (MTD) and Weeks-To-Date (WTD), YTD plus MTD, for return and drawdown metrics making them current as of data drop date, typically last Friday.
  • Upgraded payment portal for subscribers and resubscribers to PayPal Commerce Platform.
  • Added Additional Decimal place View option to MultiSearch results table.
  • Added MAXDD Ratings to Calendar Year and Fixed Period Analyze tools in MultiSearch.
  • Added Reset button to MultiSearch mainpage, which clears all selected criteria, sets results table to default state, and erases site session and local variables.
  • Converted all benchmark comparisons and attendant correlation and alpha/beta metrics to industry recognized "Best Fit" Indexes versus the proprietary Lipper Global Indexes used previously.
  • Established separate Benchmarks Group in MultiSearch table, breaking out from Portfolio Group.
  • Enhanced Preferences, enabling easier integration of new columns and column order changes into set Preference. Now, includes column widths!

How to subscribe?

Premium MFO membership is $120 per year ($85 is tax-deductible to the extent allowable under law).

Create an account by clicking on LOGIN tab above. Access is granted automatically after email verification and PayPal portal payment. Writing a check also works. Drop us an email (david@mutualfundobserver.com) when the check is in the mail and we will access you pronto.

Current subscribers can extend or renew subscriptions any time via ACCOUNT tab. All subscriptions are non-recurring (we don't believe in auto-renewal).
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MultiSearch found funds meeting your criteria, exceeding fund display limit. Only first funds with highest APR will be displayed. Or, you can narrow search with additional criteria.
Compare can be performed on 1 fund minimum and 12 funds maximum. Either refine search or select rows accordingly.
Correlations can be performed on 2 funds minimum and 12 funds maximum. Either refine search or select rows accordingly.
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Fund limit for this analytics tool is . If search is completed, select rows from results table below; otherwise, complete the search.
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Note: Watchlists can be saved to your profile from the MultiSearch Results page via the Export button. So, a good way to test for candidate Watchlists is to run Search using the normal Symbol input entry or other criteria.
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// new approach to column selection ... 12jun21

MultiSearch Column Group Selection


Please select using buttons below the column group or groups you want in the results table [default is Summary Info only group].


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MultiSearch Individual Column Selection


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MultiSearch Individual Column Selection


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