V.15:14 (625-628): Value Line Fund Analyzer, version 1.1 by John Sweeney

Value Line Fund Analyzer, version 1.1. Mutual fund selection and monitoring software withupdates from Value Line. by John Sweeney

Mutual fund selection, sorting, ranking and portfolio tracking is the focus of the Value Line Fund Analyzer. Updated monthly, the Windows-based software provides complete data on more than 5,800 mutual funds (but not the Value Line funds) and examines all that information by user-selectable criteria. The criteria you can use are truly voluminous (see sidebar, “Criteria”), and some are unique from what I’ve seen of public mutual fund analysis software. You can get the information on diskette or CD-ROM, and both media are updated by a proprietary online service. Data included goes back 10 years.

Behind the scenes are, Value Line says, more than 100 analysts, statisticians and economists using objective analytic methodologies, tracking both the mutual funds and their related stocks. This force, built up since 1931, not only publishes the famous Value Line Reports but runs mutual funds and does asset management for retirement and endowment accounts. This assemblage now puts out the CD and online versions and, indeed, you can get a portable document format version of the Value Line Mutual Fund Survey printed pages (Value Line refers to them as “E-pages”) for an extra $100 per year.