For example a US Treasury would have a very low risk weighting while Mortgage Backed Securities backed by subprime loans would by definition imply a higher risk weighting and thus a higher capital requirement.
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By June he devised a spreadsheet weighting different factors and using a point system.
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For example, practically every mutual fund with a growth orientation carries a 5 percent weighting in Apple and at least 3.5 percent in Exxon Mobil.
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Investors can nudge their portfolios closer to a market economic weighting in real estate by purchasing a low-cost equity REIT index fund or ETF.
Some providers of single-country ETFs address concentration risk by using a "modified market weighting" to limit their exposure to a country's giant stocks, or simply by focusing on stocks of smaller companies.
An example of a strategy is fundamental indexing, which is a method of weighting stocks by fundamental factors such as sales and dividends.
However, given what we knew at those times, a rich valuation and a too-high portfolio weighting argued for the position to be trimmed.
Audrey Kaplan, a fund manager at Federated InterContinental (RIMAX) went from a zero percent weighting on Brazil to 6.3% as of Jan. 31.
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Believe it or not, health insurance costs are assigned a weighting of less than one percent of the overall CPI.
Although many London-based staff receive a weighting allowance, most public sector staff are subject to the same rates of pay whether they work in the north or the south.
Last week, Cambridge, Mass based fund trackers at EPFR Global said that Brazil as a weighting in emerging market portfolios has gone from 16.7 percent in 2009 to 11.6 percent in November 2012, its lowest weighting since 2005.
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Among other recent changes is a likely increase in the weighting assigned to the Australian dollar due to its position as a key supplier of industrial commodities to China.
Russell Growth put Exxon in its index recently at a major weighting of 4.8 percent.
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The Federal Reserve Board chooses to exclude food and fuel from its inflation index but does give housing a big weighting.
's Market Vectors series of single-country ETFs cap the weighting of a single stock at 8% in a quarterly rebalancing, says a company spokesman.
We have long advocated a conservative weighting of 5 to 10 percent in gold and gold stocks because of the inherent volatility you are seeing today.
According to its calculations, the construction industry contributed 8.5% to GDP in 2008 (the Office of National Statistics weighting is a more modest 6.1% of GDP).
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Equal weighting is a biased, even a skewed view, for no impact on the changing nature of an industrial economy is detected until a rebalancing takes place.
This does away with actuarial jiggery-pokery in estimating liabilities and so exposes the true volatility of pension funds with a high weighting of their assets in equities.
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Though Julius Baer remains keen on the American stockmarket, the average recommended allocation of American shares by our moneymen is now four points below a neutral weighting.
Her benchmark, meanwhile, has a Brazil weighting of just 3.7%.
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And we always like to have a little cash laying around, just in case we find one new idea today, so that we can get a little weighting in that stock.
They retain art advisors (who know next to nothing.) Many wealth management firms recommend clients put 10% of their assets into art and balance this with a comparable weighting in gold.
In addition to a hefty weighting to BAC, the fund also holds more than 9% of its assets in both Citigroup (C) and JP Morgan (JPM), likely to be impacted by any news at Bank of America.
This looks like a non sequitor considering my weighting in energy, but not if oil futures top out now, my call, but a lady or tiger situation.
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The chained CPI will take those substitutions into account through a chain-weighting method that varies with consumer spending.
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Wood is so optimistic he is telling US pension funds to have a 40% weighting for gold bullion and gold mining shares.
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Given that AAPL has a 17% weighting in the Nasdaq, any additional weakness could drag the rest of the market down as well.
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