Price increases also picked-up by a full percentage point to an index value of 56.5.
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An index value of 50 is the dividing line between growth and expansion.
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The Gini index value for the United States in 2011 was 0.475, higher than it was in 2010 at 0.469.
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Note, for instance, that its vertical axes show nominal prices (dollars per ounce for gold, index value for the tech-stock Nasdaq).
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An index value of 100 is equal to the application volume on March 16, 1990, the first week the MBA tracked application volumes.
The index value as of this October was 256.8.
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The higher the Index value the better, because it either has a high 5 year growth rate tempered by a fairly low payout ratio, or a modest growth history with a very low payout ratio.
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The PMI in March, for example, strengthened to 61.2, up from 57 in December. (An index value of 50 is the demarcation between and expansion and contraction.) New orders, production and employment all showed increased strength.
To forecast the indices we used the current Zillow Home Value Index value for May, which we released almost three weeks ago, the April Case-Shiller home indices numbers and the national percentage for foreclosure re-sales in May.
Forecasts for both variants of the Case-Shiller Index are based on the current Zillow Home Value Index value for July, which we released as part of our Real Estate Market Reports a couple weeks ago, the June Case-Shiller home indices numbers and the national percentage for foreclosure re-sales in July , which can be found in the Zillow real estate market reports.
Their large-cap value index returned 54% over the decade, while their small-cap value index returned 140% and emerging markets returned 140%.
It had a total return of 6.8% annually over the five years ended December 6.2 percentage points better than its benchmark, the Russell 1000 Value index of large value stocks.
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My favorite market index is Value Line because it is a straight arithmetic index of 1, 650 stocks.
According to Zillow's home value index, the median value of top-tier homes in the Sandy Springs area is down 11.2% since July 2006, just after the Erbeys bought the house.
In fact there only circumstance where such an index has value is when the Sharpe ratios of all component stocks and the correlations between all pairs of stocks in the index are equal.
It s not so much that the fundamental index bought value as that it swung between value and growth, leaning toward value when value was out of favor and toward growth when growth was out of favor.
The first takes a low-cost, total market index fund and augmenting it with a value index fund as desired.
"Value Index is also tax efficient, so any investor can use it, " he says.
Historically, adding a small-cap value index fund to a diversified equity portfolio has lowered portfolio risk and increased returns.
The portfolio is tilted to value stocks using a second value index fund.
Go with Vanguard Value Index (VIVAX), if you're looking for an index choice.
In fact, retail apparel is the number one ranked industry on my Validea Value Index as we head into 2013.
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Zillow analyzed forecasted Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI) data for more than 5, 100 individual neighborhoods in hundreds of cities nationwide.
With model in hand, the question becomes how much of a position should one take in a small-cap value index fund?
See Figure 1 for a comparison of both variants of Case-Shiller and their corresponding analogues based on the Zillow Home Value Index.
Its five-year average annual return of 6.6% was 2.8 percentage points better than that of its benchmark, the Russell Mid Cap Value index.
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Zillow, like Clear Capital, covers a spectrum of cities in the Zillow Home Value Index 200 metro areas to be exact.
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This forecast is in line with the trend in the Zillow Home Value Index reported in the Q3 Zillow Real Estate Market Report.
The Russell 2000 value index had the highest correlation and, in fact, outperformed the median fund in both the private equity and VC categories.
This strategy can also be expanded to international investing by adding a small-cap international value index and real estate fund to a broad international index fund.
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