In our non-seasonal Market-Timing Strategy we use sector funds as well as index funds, avoiding individual stocks.
As I have discussed here before, VIX calls are often used as index, ETF, and portfolio hedges against potential market reversals.
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The likely result: billions of dollars flowing into Russia, as index and pension funds rush to rebalance their portfolios to conform to the reweighting.
First, actively-managed mutual funds cannot earn excess returns over index funds because in aggregate they earn the same as index funds, less the difference in cost.
By avoiding the high fees of an actively managed fund, investors who buy a diversified portfolio of individual stocks are getting much of the same low cost advantage as index fund investors.
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However, as index-based mutual funds and ETFs continue to gain popularity and active managers are increasingly pressured to control their performance tracking error relative to benchmark indexes, the markets could become less efficient.
What matters in successful portfolio management is deciding upon a sensible allocation based on your needs, filling those allocations with low-cost investments such as index funds and ETFs, and then staying the course through all market conditions.
Financial services firms that rely on brokers and advisors face a threat from online channels which are accumulating assets faster than full service firms, partly because of the growing popularity of passive investments such as index funds and ETFs, he added.
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The U.S. dollar index traded modestly lower Tuesday as the index is trading near the recent lows.
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The U.S. dollar index traded modestly lower Tuesday, as the index is also in a pause mode.
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The U.S. dollar index traded slightly steady to higher Wednesday, as the index bulls have faded and need to show fresh power soon.
The U.S. dollar index is slightly lower in early trading Wednesday, as the index bulls are fading.
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On Monday we get new data on the manufacturing sector with the ISM Manufacturing Index as well as the PMI Manufacturing Index.
The index is set to replace the Dow average on April 8 as the index whose action will be monitored for the sharp swings that trigger "circuit breakers" halting all U.S. stock trading.
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Moods became dramatically darker, however, as the index proceeded to lose half its value over the next 31 months.
Meanwhile, the VIX Index, also known as the Fear Index, measures the bullishness or bearishness (fear) of options players.
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The Stoxx Europe 600 rose 0.6%, as the index notched a fourth-straight gain.
Tens of millions of pounds more will be wagered thorough spread-betting firms such as Sporting Index and Cantor Sport.
The VIX Index , also known as the Fear Index, has already been attracting attention for more than a month.
In effect, the bank s stock served as an index fund for the regional economy, which at that time was dominated by the cyclical technology industry.
On Wednesday, stocks were boosted by the much better numbers from the ISM on manufacturing, as the index hit its highest level in eight months.
The Toronto Exchange in Canada was the first to issue an ETF-type product known as Toronto Index Participation Units (TIP 35) in March 1990.
As an index of political energy, the first day of the fourth annual session did nothing to counter the feeling that South Africa's parliament is losing its fizz.
The addition of UnitedHealth will not cause a change in the level of the Dow, as the index committee will tweak its divisor prior to the Sept. 24 open to prevent any distortion.
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The selling across many of the commodity markets has now turned into a stampede for the exits this week, as the Reuters CRB Index, as well as the commodity ETFs and ETNs are now clearly in a correction phase.
Whereas double lows or previous resistance areas made themselves known to the SPX, RUT and DJIA, it was an important round-number level on the MID that came into play last week, as the index made its first-ever run at 1, 000 on Friday.
Therefore it expresses the earnings as a percent of the index price rather than the index price as a multiple of the earnings.
Their chart shows that both the Leading Economic Index (LEI) as well as the Coincident Economic Index (CEI) are both still clearly rising.
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