Finally, the asset class should be investible with low-cost index funds and ETFs, or a least a near-index type, broadly diversified actively managed fund.
The Index is a rules-based index composed solely of short USDX futures contracts.
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Investing in actively-managed mutual funds that charge high fees can lower your standard of living in retirement by as much as one-third over a low-cost index fund strategy.
The Economist has compiled a credit-crunch index, comprising a number of measures on everything from bank lending to the cost of buying insurance against default for banks, firms and sovereigns in the euro zone.
Kaufman's book is a marvel of concision, with a handy color-coding system (red for "medium-size land birds") and a one-page index on the back page.
Zillow is predicting the non-seasonally adjusted 20-City Composite Home Price Index will decline by 3.2% on a year-over-year basis, while the 10-City Composite Home Price Index will show a year-over-year decline of 2.7%.
There was a mixed bag of economic data out of the U.S. overnight, but the gains in New York suggest that investors were focusing on the positives such as a better than forecast increase in a home-price index, as well as a rise in business spending on durable goods.
With or without the threat of a dividend-tax increase, investors with a dividend-heavy portfolio should consider balancing their approach by adding something as simple as a broad-market index fund, Mr. Dickson says.
Last week, the Dow rose 3.6%, including a 124-point bounce on Friday that sent the blue-chip index to a five-month high.
All models were required to have a body mass index -- a ratio of height and weight -- above 18, the minimum limit considered healthy by the World Health Organization.
In Louisiana, the House of Representatives passed a bill by a vote of 100-0 that mandates the creation of a terror-free stock index.
Using a 4-month chart, a 10-period relative strength index reading of 7 and slow stochastics in deeply oversold territory indicate Hormel could be attractively priced in the current price range.
But in the early 1970s Anthony DeStephen, a hustling ex-librarian in New Jersey, saw a market for a 70-year periodical index with all the Aentries in one book, the Bs in another book and so on.
Young home buyers with a big mortgage should short-sell a regional index of home prices.
Historically, adding a small-cap value index fund to a diversified equity portfolio has lowered portfolio risk and increased returns.
Castle Trust, a yet-to-be-authorised lender in Britain backed by JC Flowers, a private-equity firm, plans to offer savers investment products tied to a national house-price index.
"We know if you play as a kid you over-index in your propensity to become a fan, " Brosnan said.
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The Index is a rules-based, modified global-capitalization-weighted, float-adjusted index intended to give investors a means of tracking the overall performance of a global universe of listed companies engaged in the solar energy industry.
We took the job-growth and cost-of-living rankings, and added to the mix a housing affordability index from research firm Moody's Economy.com and a salary index from Seattle-based compensation collection firm PayScale .
Liken it to the difference between a no-load index fund and an index ETF.
The remaining 20 letters were a sort-of index instructions for later restoring the fragments in the right order.
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It will result in the creation of a terror-free index available to public, institutional, and individual investors across America.
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This autumn was supposed to bring agreement on a common stockmarket-index, but that too seems to be slipping away.
Traditional mutual funds tend to be actively managed, while ETFs adhere to a passive index-tracking strategy, and therefore have lower expense ratios.
The half of your money in a low-cost index fund, such as one from Vanguard, should run up expenses of just 0.2% a year.
The solution is a "dual-index" mortgage, in which the principal balance is indexed to inflation, and payments are indexed to Mexico's government-decreed minimum wage.
The Amex fund has to beat the market by better than five points with its stock picks just to tie the results of a low-cost index fund.
The Economist decided to see how different councils fared, through a widely-used index that ranks the top 5% of academic economists worldwide by citations to date.
Chart Analysis : The chart of the CBOE Interest Rate Ten-Year T-Note Index has a long-term downtrend going back to the 1990s that is now at 4.4%.
Although he was a widely respected academic, with a high Q-index, great SciDigg scores, three successful tenure renewals, and excellent student references, he knew that the game was changing.
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