For example, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, led by Patagonia, has engaged over 30% of the global apparel and footwear companies who are now held accountable to a single sustainability index.
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Benchmarking to a single or customized index has long been a staple of the investment management and advisory businesses.
If you invest in single asset class index funds like the Vanguard Total US Stock Market index or the Spartan International Index at Fidelity, you can easily compare the performance of your individual holdings to the market index they track.
The study, remember, argues that a doubling of the relative wages of civil servants is needed to reduce a country's score on the corruption index by a single unit.
Consider that, prior to this year, this same index had just a single down year (2008) since 2003.
There is an increasing number of investors day traders, short-sellers, arbitrageurs, hedge funds, single-issue shareowners, passive index trackers, etc who have no incentive to concern themselves constructively with issues of governance and long-term value creation.
Not a single one on France's CAC 40 share index or on Germany's DAX index is run by a woman.
Although the consumer-price index has long been growing in low single digits, many say that it does not accurately reflect the increasing burden.
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The Fiserv Case-Shiller Index, which measures price changes in single-family homes in over 375 U.S. metropolitan markets, estimates that home prices have already leveled out in one out of four metro U.S. areas, despite price declines of 1.5% in the third quarter of 2010.
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It hasn't had a single down month and has been less volatile than an index fund.
Instead they return an amount based upon the performance of an underlying equity instrument, be it an index, a hedge fund or even a single stock.
Seen in this light, our index provides little comfort to Italian critics of the single currency.
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In my 20-plus years managing money I have not met a single investor who put all of their cash into a broad market index, ad infinitum.
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So when the stockmarket index tumbled by as much as 17% in a single day May 17th 2004 an investigation was launched into alleged murky dealings by a dozen foreign firms.
Gazprom shares--or at least 49% of them--are about to become free-floating, at which point they will suddenly jumped from nil in the benchmark Morgan Stanley Emerging Market Index to 10% of the weighting--the largest single component, likely to edge out even powerhouse Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung .
In fact, you should never buy or sell stocks based on any single sentiment indicator, whether it is our survey, the State Street Investor Confidence Index or the Investors Intelligence Advisors Survey.
If choosing a single BDC makes you nervous, you can buy E-TRACS WELLS FARGO BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY INDEX ETN (BDCS, 26) .
The chart of the iShares MSCI All Peru Index Fund ( EPU) is a good example of how hazardous it can be to invest in single-country funds without using appropriate risk controls.
Although no single statistic should inform the entirety of a debate as complex as immigration policy, it is notable that the Kauffman Index identifies that entrepreneurship rates for immigrants have been trending sharply upward since 2006.
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