The Hulbert Financial Digest is a monthly newsletter published by Mark Hulbert since 1980. The Hulbert Financial Digest isn´t an investment newsletter per say, but instead tracks the performance of 180 different stock and mutual fund investment newsletters.

The newsletter is an authoritative and independent guide that ranks all the leading stock and mutual fund newsletters, and helps you make more informative decisions as to which newsletters to follow. You can say it is the guide of investment newsletters.

The Hulbert Financial Digest offers monthly delivery via email or regular US mail, the cost is $59 a year for an email subscription and $69 a year if want the paper version mailed to you. The also offer a 30 day 100% money back guarantee.

The Hulbert Financial Digest was started by Mark Hulbert in 1980, after he attended an investment seminar in 1979 and saw presentations by numerous investment newsletters promising high returns. Mark Hulbert though these promises would be hard to accomplish and set out to investigate this.

He then created portfolios to track the performance of these newsletters and confirmed that their performance did not match their claims. Most of the investment newsletters tracked by Mark Hulbert were underperforming the market averages.

After this experiment, Mark Hulbert launched The Hulbert Financial Digest in 1980. Twenty years later The Hulbert Financial Digest tracks the performance of over 180 stock and mutual fund newsletters and over 500 of their respective portfolios.

Based on the performance records going back 20 years, The Hulbert Financial Digest helps you choose the best performing stock newsletters based on your investment style of the market conditions. According to the HFD, over 80% of all investment newsletters fail to beat the market averages, so having this type of information is useful before deciding on which market guru to spend your money.

Every monthly issue of The Hulbert Financial Digest comes jam packed with 8 to 9 pages of the following information:

• Two full pages of articles, commentary and opinions about current market conditions and trends by Mark Hulbert.
• Get up to date information of the top performing mutual fund newsletters to help you decide what mutual funds to invest in.
  
• In depth analysis of 4 investment newsletters in every issue.  Find out about their strategies, investment techniques, history and detailed performance.
  
• Find what the more accurate market timers newsletters are saying is the direction of the market.
  
• Find out which stocks are being bought and sold by the top performing newsletters and mutual funds. Buy what they are buying and sell what they are selling.
• Up to date information on the best performing stock and mutual fund investment newsletters over the last 5, 10, 15 and 20 years.