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Knowing the top rated mutual fund companies will help you build a portfolio that consists of quality fund managers and mutual fund companies with a strong history of risk management and performance. Most investors who build watertight mutual fund portfolios invest time and money into research to find the best fund managers and mutual fund companies operating in the market. Some of the mutual fund companies that have consistently performed well in bear and bull markets include AXA Framlington, Cazenove, First State, Jupiter, M&G, and Threadneedle, this fund managers have a proven track record in returning high yields while keeping risk firmly under control.

Top Rated Mutual Fund Companies 2013

The list below shows the top 20 rated mutual fund companies funds which have been filtered according to superior stock picking, good past performance, controlled risk management and re-balancing strategies. All these funds have a FE Crown Rating of 5 which means that the have been assessed by the top risk managers and given top marks to make them far more superior than the rest. To get a 5 star FE Crown Ratings the funds must show the following characteristics.

1. Excellent past performance in comparison to the index

2. Excellent risk management compared to yield

3. Superior stock picking criteria

4. Excellent history of fund management

When you do construct your portfolio taking into account ratings is important as this is very similar to fundamental analysis where you have a sample of stock to analyze and you pick the best ones according to their financial strength. By picking funds with superior crown ratings your portfolio will perform better than expected compared to the index when the stock market rises and will decline comparably less compared to the index when markets fall. All the funds below have a five star FE Crown ratings and if you had invested 100 units into each fund on the 14th of March 2012 your portfolio would have returned 12%.

You also need to consider effective risk management when building a portfolio, you need to look at indicators such as volatility, alpha, beta, gamma and Sharpe ratio. The FE Risk Score takes all these indicators into account and offers a risk score in comparison to the index, your aim is to build a portfolio using five star crown ratings with a high return while having the lowest FE Risk Score. Here is the list of top rated mutual fund companies 2013 and the funds.

List of Top Rated Mutual Fund Companies 2013