It's easy enough to avoid falling victim to high index-fund fees yourself.
The New York Fed released its manufacturing survey for New York state Tuesday, showing that manufacturing is expanding in February, but a high index metric points to weakening profit margins for manufacturers.
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In 2001, Vanderbilt's Mr. Whaley developed an index to exploit the high price of index options.
The longest available series for high-yield bond returns is the Merrill Lynch 100 High Yield Index.
The JPMorgan Domestic High Yield Index is an index composed of non-investment-grade corporate bonds.
Some regions, South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, still rank high whichever index is used.
Just 18.7% of the issues within the high yield index are rated CCC, the most default-prone category.
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But as a search engine, we can do what we think is best to return a high quality index.
The average return on Barclays High Yield Index has slipped to historic lows.
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The 24% cap means the most you can make on the note is 24%, regardless of how high the index goes.
The high yield index certainly yields less in nominal terms than it did around the last two recessions in 2011and late-2007 to mid-2009.
At the beginning of 2004, the real yield of the high yield index stood at 5.20%, only slightly higher than the May 2011 level of 4.78%.
Emerging market and investment grade bonds have sold off in the last few days, and the dollar high-yield index has plateaued, but European high-yield has remained on course, edging higher.
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Since its inception in 1998, the fund's investor share class has returned a compound 5.7%, versus 5.9% for its benchmark, Lehman Brothers' U.S. Corporate High-Yield Index.
The return on high-yield bonds according to the Merrill Lynch High Yield Bond Index is the highest it has ever been, at 7%, up 2.9% year-to-date.
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The chart from The Wall Street Journal shows the dramatic rise of the Barclays US Corporate High Yield Bond Index in 2012, and the further gains in early 2013.
There is no magic that insurance companies can do to enhance long term returns on a bond portfolio, and given the costs involved most investors would be far better served to invest in a short-term, high quality bond index fund.
Consider that the double-B subset of the Barclays High-Yield Index, at 4.33% on Tuesday, is nearly a full percentage point lower than where it stood at the beginning of September and is down roughly 175 bps from levels a year ago.
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Sooner or later, the affordability index kicks high enough to prompt many families to take the plunge.
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None of this, however, entirely accounts for the strange disconnect between high growth and low index rankings.
During May, the yield on the Merrill Lynch High Yield Master II Index jumped from 8.29% to 9.29%.
High-Yield Municipal Index shares are currently trading down about 0.9% on the day.
Note too the fresh near-five-year high for the DAX index on the threshold of renewed recession and notwithstanding the weekend theatrics in Rome.
Actively-managed mutual funds have high costs relative to index funds.
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