Our analysts are entitled to an opinion, but opinion has to be backed by data

Morningstar, one of the world’s largest mutual fund research firms, rates fund houses the world over. But it doesn’t just focus on its star ratings, which look at historical data and aren’t quite forward looking. Past performance, as is well known to all of us, does not guarantee future performance. Here’s where it’s analyst ratings comes in. Here Morningstar goes behind the scenes, interviews fund managers and houses on a consistent basis and goes into their teams, processes and philosophy to bring out the analyst ratings. It does the analyst ratings for India too. Chris Douglas, spoke with us about the challenges of doing analyst ratings and what more they tell us in addition to its star ratings.

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