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What grade does EPLPX get?

Morningstar rates funds on what they returned. We grade them on where their money sits today: how much of the book overlaps with the converged buys of the top specialist stock pickers.

B

Fundprints Fund Grade · as of 2026-10-30

NYLI Epoch U.S. Equity Yield Fund Class A

#90 of 363 graded active funds · blend · large segment peer group

The point · specialist footprint

EPLPX puts more of its book behind proven specialists than 83% of graded funds.

Bottom 20%

Bottom 40%

Middle

Top 40%

● Top 20%

beat the S&P in 22% of quarters+3.8%/qtr better · 43% beat rate

That has mattered: over the past 2.7 years, funds on this rung beat bottom-rung funds by about 3.8% per quarter, and beat the S&P in 43% of fund-quarters versus their 22%. The evidence argues this fund earns its seat.

10,000+ funds tracked · the graded specialists among them drive every read

The grade scores this fund's specialist share, the slice that overlaps what the top 1% of proven funds are building. We ignore index ballast and names outside our edge on purpose: that slice is small, and it's what decides the outcome.

EPLPX vs the Honor Roll · share card ↗

Conviction exposure

38.3%

of the book in specialist-converged names

Late-stage weight

20.1%

of the book in Crowded or Fading names

Active share

81.1%

how far it strays from the index

The best grades have beaten the worst by about +5% a year since we began grading. The gap held in 9 out of 10 months. Measured on filings as they were published, no hindsight.

Inside the book: top names by stage · as of 2026-10-30

Early Conviction
DELL 1.7%AEP 1.6%MRK 1.4%+11 locked
Consensus
JPM 2.1%JNJ 2%CSCO 1.9%+54 locked
Emerging
WMT 1.7%MCD 1%HON 0.9%+3 locked
Crowded
GOOG 1.2%MDT 1.2%T 1.1%+2 locked
Fading
AVGO 2.3%BAC 2%NEE 1.2%+15 locked

We email you the day it crosses 50% crowded, and where you stand every month.

Graded monthly from point-in-time filings. A description of where the money sits, not a recommendation. Evidence, not advice.

The read · what to do with it

Support leaving these positions

AVGO 2.3% of the fund · Fading

BAC 2% of the fund · Fading

NEE 1.2% of the fund · Fading

GOOG 1.2% of the fund · Crowded

ETN 1.2% of the fund · Fading

Where it's genuinely early

WMT 1.7% of the fund · Emerging

DELL 1.7% of the fund · Early Conviction

AEP 1.6% of the fund · Early Conviction

Read from today's disclosed book. Evidence, not advice.

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