Higher dividend growth among a value stock index relative to a growth index is a result (or benefit) of reconstitution and rebalancing rules, according to Chaves and Arnott.
According to Rothstein Kass in a recent study, an index of women-led funds produced a net return of 9%, compared to a global index return of a mere 3%.
Another option is to actually learn how to become a better investor and work hard to make your retirement stash grow at a rate higher than the 7% to 10% annually that you might expect from a index fund or with a financial advisor.
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There's a Producer Price Index, and it's a price index that gets reported next week.
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 .
Second, turnover of holdings within a style index is significantly greater than a beta seeking broad market index.
Leonard Lauder coined the idea of a Lipstick Index a decade ago to show how lipstick sales rise in a bad economy.
Nonetheless, U.S. stocks can be divided so that a large stock index is quite different than a small stock index.
It is important to select foods with a low glycemic index, as opposed to those with a high glycemic index.
The first takes a low-cost, total market index fund and augmenting it with a value index fund as desired.
Some of these have a longer lead time relative to economic activity than others, so the firm publishes both a longer leading index, which signals changes in activity about a year in advance, and a shorter leading index, which looks six months ahead.
Accordingly, an index that has a higher growth in dividends will eventually command a higher price than a comparable index that has lower growth in dividends.
Andreas Utermann, a director at Mercury Asset Management, thinks a euro index will underperform a broader, pan-European benchmark and should therefore not be marketed as a better alternative to clients.
In many cases, a traditional index fund may be a better solution to your investment needs.
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Their emerging markets dividend fund tracks a proprietary index that starts with a universe of 1, 200 emerging market equities and chooses from those who have the highest dividend yield.
In those markets, a traditional index mutual fund will be a far better choice.
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Although the company has created a sustainability index, it still sells a lot of cheap, unnecessary stuff at really low prices.
Acquisition cost vs. a traditional index mutual fund is no longer a consideration.
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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.
That ended in a hurry on Wednesday, as a leading index of manufacturing activity fell to a 19-month low and the ADP Employment report painted a dismal picture for jobs.
On the basis that there's a link between confidence and risk-taking, a speeding index, also because people are in a greater hurry when there's business to be done.
Together, the two gases form a good index of how polluted the airstream is on a given day.
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Japan accounts for the largest country weighting in the MSCI EAFE (Europe, Australia, Far East) index, a global stock index covering more than 20 countries.
The Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) is undergoing a face-lift as it transitions from its MSCI emerging markets index to a FTSE emerging markets index.
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The 200-day is a major, major support level, so its important to see how a stock or index handles a break of it over the subsequent 1-3 days.
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While it makes sense for The Economist to compute a Big Mac Index for a product that is basically the same wherever it is sold, price comparisons of services that are highly differentiated across countries are less revealing.
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That strategy is fine, but these investments typically have much higher fees than index funds, which buy all the stocks or bonds of a particular index and hold onto them.
The dollar index is in danger of posting a technically bearish monthly low close Friday, with there also being a slight chance the index could post a quarterly low close if selling pressure picks up Friday.
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