Why We Highly Rate Vanguard Equity-Income Low fees, solid complementary subadvisors make this fund a solid choice. Todd Trubey Jun 5, 2025
Why We Downgraded Oakmark International Plus, other Morningstar Medalist Rating highlights from May. Joe Bullard, CFA Jun 3, 2025
Why We Upgraded Dodge & Cox Emerging Markets Stock Plus, other Morningstar Medalist Rating highlights from April. Joe Bullard, CFA May 6, 2025
Introducing the Morningstar Medalist Rating Methodology for Semiliquid Funds Interval funds can provide access to private investments and are due for diligence. Karen Zaya, Ph.D. May 6, 2025
What’s in a Workplace Retirement Plan? Our latest research includes analysis of the cost and quality of investments in defined-contribution plans. Lia Mitchell Apr 11, 2025
Is Novo Nordisk Stock a Buy After its Collapse? Novo Nordisk has shed more than 50% of its valuation since its peak in June 2024. Johanna Englundh Apr 9, 2025
Funds With Recent People Pillar Downgrades Changes to a fund’s team can have a negative effect. David Kathman Mar 17, 2025
Worried About a Market Selloff? These 10 Funds Reduce Portfolio Risk A look at funds from Vanguard, Fidelity, and others that offer downside protection. Russel Kinnel and Ivanna Hampton Mar 14, 2025
The Art of Losing Less in a Bear Market These 12 funds can help you better manage the downside. Russel Kinnel Mar 11, 2025
Why We Upgraded This Fidelity Equity Fund to Gold Plus other Morningstar Medalist Rating highlights from February. Joe Bullard, CFA Mar 7, 2025
Why We Upgraded JPMorgan Income ETF Skilled managers and analysts distinguish the team behind this active bond exchange-traded fund. Ken Noguchi Jan 10, 2025
These 2 Fund Families Earned the Most Overall Ratings Upgrades in 2024 Team changes drove downgrades at T. Rowe Price. Alyssa Stankiewicz Dec 27, 2024
The 10 Biggest Fund Downgrades of 2024 Deteriorating fundamentals led to lower ratings for these mutual funds. Russel Kinnel Dec 20, 2024
The 10 Biggest Fund Upgrades of 2024 We saw fundamental improvement in these funds. Russel Kinnel Dec 17, 2024
Why Did Morningstar Just Downgrade My Fund? Lessons from the enhanced Morningstar Medalist Rating. Laura Lallos Nov 8, 2024
A Quality Research Group Supports Fidelity Balanced This fund’s long-term track record tops most peers, but investors have had to stomach large drawdowns to capture those returns. Hyunmin Kim Nov 4, 2024
Why 15% of Funds Just Saw a Change to Their Rating We’ve enhanced the Morningstar Medalist Rating, with many funds seeing downgrades as a result. Jeffrey Ptak, CFA Oct 29, 2024
Why We’re Enhancing the Morningstar Medalist Rating We expect around 20% of funds to see changes in their ratings, most of them downgrades. Jeffrey Ptak, CFA Sep 16, 2024
These Funds Are Better Than Their Low Star Ratings We like these funds even if the Morningstar Rating doesn’t. Russel Kinnel Apr 4, 2024