For Fisher, the benchmark to beat is the MSCI, the Morgan Stanley World Index.
The RS versus the MSCI World Index has already broken though resistance at line g.
Emerging markets and the MSCI World Index trail and junk bonds show just 1 percent.
Over the same period, the Morgan Stanley Capital International World index returned just 12% a year on average.
The relative performance, or RS analysis, looks at the performance of EWS compared to the MSCI World Index.
Indeed, profits of those 188 companies reporting to-date in the MSCI World Index have beaten forecasts by nearly 9%!
The stock price used here is the Morgan Stanley World Index, which tracks 1, 869 stocks in the world's developed markets.
The FTSE Islamic Index has fallen 41 percent, and the all-world index 44 percent, similar losses over the past six months.
Last year we suffered a 16% correction in the MSCI World Index before stocks rebounded for a total return of nearly 12% in 2010.
Those with developed markets in 1900 still dominate the equity landscape, comprising 84% of the MSCI All World Index, Hudson points out.
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The U.S. is, according to the Economic Freedom of the World index, the nation with the 18th freest economy in the world.
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Global stocks have fallen 15% this year and are about 20% off their early-May highs, as measured by the MSCI AC world index.
For Fisher, the benchmark to beat is the MSCI, the Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ) World Index.
In comparison, the MSCI World index has doubled from its lows, in U.S. dollar terms, and today is about 15% below the 2007 peak.
There are only a couple of dozen stocks among the holdings in the fund, and New Zealand is a small fraction of the world index.
The MSCI World Index gained more than 13 per cent last year, its best performance since the recovery from the global financial crisis in 2009.
And why fear the US level but not the global? (The MSCI World index total return is just 4.7% from its past high.) Or vice versa?
The MSCI world index is around 32% below its peak.
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The Index of Economic Freedom and the similar Economic Freedom of the World Index from the Frazer Institute were both created under the inspiration of the late Milton Friedman.
The stock price used here is the Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ) World Index, which tracks 1, 869 stocks in the world's developed markets.
As a result of big losses on such tech and telecom picks as ARM Holdings, KPN and SK Telecom, his list on average did worse than the MSCI World index.
But studies have shown mixed performance in the run-up to the Games, but interestingly, all recent Olympic hosts have outperformed the MSCI World index in the 12 months following the Olympics.
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Siemens AG has been named once again to the prestigious Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI), capturing the No. 1 spot in the sector Diversified Industrials, which also includes ITT, General Electric and Toshiba.
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Food service a good example of a consumer staple led the Bloomberg World index, posting a whopping 136.48% gain over the past two weeks while consumer discretionary sectors like leisure and entertainment suffered, falling 31.21% and 41.73% respectively.
Because the strong cost cutting undertaken by corporate America , Asia and Europe we also see record net income gains that have driven a rally of over 90% in the MSCI All-Country World Index of 45 nations.
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Recently I made two tables, one showing stock returns (as measured by the MSCI World Index) over various periods beginning at the starting points of the tightening periods, the other showing returns beginning at the starting points of the loosening periods.
Eveillard's First Eagle Global Fund, which has enjoyed a five-year annualized return of 18% (compared with 15% at MSCIs World Index), has been steadily increasing its positions in Japanese stocks to 21% of the fund, behind only U.S. stocks at 24%.
In addition to a chart that compares FBIOX to health care and the MSCI World Index, it also provides the performance for a number of different time periods, as well as how the fund performed relative to other similar funds or benchmarks.
This has been true over the past five years taken together (when the Morgan Stanley World Index has averaged an 18.3% annual return) and also in every calendar year except 2005, when the return was shy of its historical (post-1926) performance by a whisker.
The FTSE MIB index of Italian stocks is down 8% in U.S. dollar terms so far this year, underperforming the 2% rise in the broader European markets, as measured by the Euro Stoxx index, and the 8% rise in the MSCI World index, which tracks global markets.
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