Dan Culloton

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An Excellent Choice for Broad Exposure to Healthcare

Gold-rated Vanguard Health Care benefits from an experienced manager.

Dan Culloton Feb 27, 2020

A Terrific Large Growth Fund

Jensen Quality Growth's managers have demonstrated stock-picking acumen over a long period of time.

Dan Culloton Feb 13, 2020

December Analyst Ratings Upgrades, Downgrades, and More

Morningstar rated 641 share classes and vehicles and 156 unique strategies in the last month of 2019.

Dan Culloton Jan 13, 2020

The Bull Market Has Warped Your Global Stock Portfolio

The long bull market has made you wealthy, but it may have distorted your global stock allocation and increased your price risk.

Dan Culloton Nov 18, 2019

This Fund Is Better Than It Looks

Bronze-rated Artisan Value practices a valuation-sensitive, consistent approach that stands out from the pack.

Dan Culloton Oct 17, 2019

Boost Your Equity Yield Without Reaching for It

Here are some quality funds for income-seeking investors.

Dan Culloton Jul 29, 2019

3 Great Funds Having a Lousy Year

Dan Culloton Jul 8, 2019

A Compelling Foreign-Stock Fund on Our Radar

Dan Culloton May 2, 2019

The First Quarter in U.S. Equity Funds

Aggressive strategies strike back.

Dan Culloton Apr 1, 2019

A Masterful High-Quality Growth Fund

The team managing Silver-rated Jensen Quality Growth knows its circle of competence and doesn't leave it.

Dan Culloton Feb 21, 2019

Vanguard Founder Jack Bogle Passes Away

There was nothing passive about the father of passive index investing.

Dan Culloton Jan 16, 2019

Oakmark International Reopens to New Investors

Outflows accelerate in 2018 amid poor performance for this Gold-rated fund.

Dan Culloton Dec 17, 2018

3 Emerging-Markets Equity Funds That Have Handled Volatility Well

These stalwarts won’t avoid all of their asset class’ rough spots, but they can smooth them out.

Dan Culloton Oct 23, 2018

Third Quarter in Non-U.S. Stock Funds: Tariff Tiff Tremors

Non-U.S. strategies lagged U.S.-focused managers again as both the dollar and trade fears increased.

Dan Culloton Oct 2, 2018

Managers Who Have Bought Their Own Lagging Funds

Here are three out-of-favor funds in which manager investment has increased in recent years.

Dan Culloton Apr 30, 2018

Small-Value Funds Worth a Look

Four leading funds in a lagging category.

Dan Culloton Nov 2, 2017

3 Top Managers Talk Small Caps

Small-cap Medalist fund managers discuss the rise of strategic beta, the move to passive, small-cap moats, and opportunities today.

Dan Culloton Oct 31, 2017

A Large Cash Stake Doesn't Necessarily Make for a Low-Risk Fund

Managers who stockpile cash often take risks in other areas.

Dan Culloton Aug 1, 2017

Like a Hedge Fund, But Without Hedge-Fund Fees

For more than two decades, Gold-rated FPA Crescent's eclectic, contrarian style delivers equitylike returns with less risk than the stock market.

Dan Culloton May 28, 2017

Low-Tech Active Management That Still Has an Edge

These managers still put a lot of emphasis on traditional techniques to beat the broad market.

Dan Culloton May 1, 2017

Fink: BlackRock Continues to Evolve

The CEO of the world's largest money manager said the company's revenue will increasingly come from software and technology rather than traditional money management.

Dan Culloton Apr 28, 2017

Active Managers Offer Keys to Success

Low fees, deep resources, long time horizons, and determination have helped these winning managers.

Dan Culloton Apr 27, 2017

BlackRock Still Searching for an Active Equity Edge

Despite leaning more on quants in its latest restructuring, BlackRock hasn't abandoned hope for fundamental stock-picking.

Dan Culloton Apr 3, 2017

BlackRock Equity Dividend Fund Refines Its Process

Despite an upcoming management change, we are maintaining our Bronze rating on this value-oriented dividend fund.

Dan Culloton Feb 26, 2017

Buy the Unloved 2017

Leaning against flow and performance trends can be beneficial.

Dan Culloton Jan 31, 2017

International-Stock Funds Conquer Concerns in 2016

Most categories managed to climb a wall of worry as emerging markets and energy revived.

Dan Culloton Jan 3, 2017

5 More Under-the-Radar and Up-and-Coming Funds

Recent additions to our Morningstar Prospects list of intriguing, little-known, or new strategies.

Dan Culloton Aug 30, 2016

10 Under-the-Radar and Up-and-Coming Funds

We’ve added to our Morningstar Prospects list of intriguing, little-known, or new strategies.

Dan Culloton Jul 26, 2016

A Unique Money Manager With Unique Challenges

BlackRock's great scale comes with great responsibility.

Dan Culloton Feb 18, 2016

Common Questions (and Answers) for Uncommon Markets

Five frequently asked questions for shell-shocked fund investors.

Dan Culloton Jan 21, 2016

Dan Culloton is a senior principal, manager research editorial, for Morningstar. He has been the lead analyst on a number of asset managers, including BlackRock, Vanguard, Franklin Templeton, Dodge & Cox, FPA, and Davis Selected Advisors. He edited the first Morningstar ETFs 150 reference guide and served as editor of the Vanguard Fund Family Report for six years.

Before joining Morningstar in 1999, Culloton was a business writer for the Daily Herald and was a recipient of the Chicago Headline Club's Peter Lisagor Award in 1998.

Culloton holds a bachelor's degree in English and journalism from Marquette University and a master's degree in public-affairs reporting from the University of Illinois at Springfield.