Bogle, who ran Vanguard until 1996, helped popularize the idea of index investing and its ethos of holding broad swaths of the market and sitting on them for a long time.
Leonard Lauder coined the idea of a Lipstick Index a decade ago to show how lipstick sales rise in a bad economy.
The impact of ETFs on the market will only get larger as fund companies expand the idea of what an index is.
Berners-Lee came up with the idea for the Web Index over the course of several meetings with board members of his Web Foundation.
The idea for the Grateful Grads Index actually came from a friend of mine who is a graduate of Harvard, who had just returned from his 30-year college reunion.
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The most popular idea among academic experts is to index benefits either to the rise in prices or to the increase in average wages throughout the economy -- whichever is less.
Eventually, researchers hope to develop a more detailed Planetary Habitability Index that factors in the idea that life might exist under exotic conditions unknown on Earth.
In some ways The Grateful Graduates Index is a vindication of the old fashioned idea of getting a good liberal arts education.
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"That's a very interesting idea that I've wanted to be able to index for a long time, " says Gus Sauter, chief investment officer at Vanguard Group.
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Another idea for broad large cap Japanese company exposure is the iShares MSCI Japan Index (EWJ) ETF.
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Yes, it's as small as you'd expect it to be, which means it's usually a better idea to left click with a tap instead of trying to squeeze your thumb and index finger on there.
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The U.S. dollar index traded higher morning, on short covering and some safe-haven buying interest on the idea that the U.S. currency is the lesser of evils in the currency markets.
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The U.S. dollar index is trading higher Monday morning, as it is also seeing safe-haven buying interest on the idea that the U.S. currency is the lesser of evils in the currency markets.
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