About the Editor
Thurman L. Smith, editor of EQUITY
FUND OUTLOOK, has been managing
client accounts with funds since 1982.
Previously he spent twelve years
developing investment research
applications at State Street Bank,
Loomis Sayles and Fidelity Investments.
He independently developed tools to
analyze reward/risk characteristics of growth
funds.
In managing client accounts, he realized that he
needed more powerful analytical tools than were
available from existing services and developed a
database and software to better rate equity funds.
He decided to share this analysis with others by
launching EQUITY FUND OUTLOOK in 1988. Mr. Smith
has an MBA in finance and investments from Babson
College and authored Investors CAN Beat
Inflation (Tab Books) in 1980.
Click here for an article on Mr. Smith in a 2002
issue of Forbes Online.
