It s not so much that the fundamental index bought value as that it swung between value and growth, leaning toward value when value was out of favor and toward growth when growth was out of favor.
The dollar index remains in an overall technically bearish posture, but there are now technical and fundamental clues that the index may have put in a major low.
They could also purchase one of the many alternative-weighted index funds that use fundamental factors, such as the Powershares FTSE RAFI US 1500 Small-Mid Index ETF (Ticker: PRFZ).
For big U.S. stocks your choices include the PowerShares fund and the Schwab Fundamental U.S. Large Company Index Fund .
The Office for National Statistics has decided not to make any fundamental change to the way it calculates the retail prices index (RPI).
In his book, Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment, Swensen recommends with all assets that investors use passive index mutual funds.
If the index does begin to trend lower again, that would be an underlying bullish fundamental for the precious metals.
Said another way: fundamental analysis of publicly available information cannot uncover opportunities that enable an active investor to consistently outperform an index fund.
However, from a fundamental standpoint, it appears the EU debt crisis will prop up the U.S. dollar index and weaken the Euro currency in the coming weeks.
FORBES: Comex Gold, Silver Lower as U.S. Dollar Index Stronger, Crude Oil Sharply Lower
As gold and silver traders await some significant, fresh fundamental news to give them near-term price direction, a stronger U.S. dollar index this week has limited buying interest in the metals.
He seems not to recognize that all the index funds and carefully benchmarked renditions of the entire market are useless if no one does the fundamental analysis that yields accurate valuations for the companies.
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