His conclusion: from 1998-2010 the index returned only 2.1% annualized on a money-weighted basis, not 7.3%.
Of the seven currencies that make up the Federal Reserve's major-currency index, only one (the Australian dollar) is within 10% of its fair value.
Of the 20 cities tracked by the Case-Shiller index, only New York saw a moderate fall in house prices since a year earlier, down 1.2%.
We have had small increases each week since October 15, and the annualized growth rate of the index is now only -3.1%, having increased for 12 weeks.
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The only legitimate purpose of program-trading is in index arbitrage, which was originally its only activity.
Vanguard's tracks the Lehman one- to five-year Bond Index, which contains only 44% U.S. Treasuries.
These questions have raised fears in the financial services industry that the department will put a government stamp of approval on one type of investing--index mutual funds--and mandate that computer modeling ignore past performance, considering only past costs.
In the slacker jobs market of the north-east, the index was up by only 2.6%, compared with 2.5% in 1996.
You can have a broker sell futures contracts on your behalf in Chicago, where traders have lately been betting that the house-price index in Los Angeles will fall only 11.5% over the next two years.
Figure 1 shows that portfolios using actively-managed funds beat the all index fund portfolio only 18 percent of the time.
Mom and Pop investors wait some more, only to watch the market-index arrows continue to point up, and then continue to sit and wait, still worried they are missing their chance.
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Academic studies discussed in The Power of Passive Investing find that portfolios holding only index funds beat portfolios holding actively-managed funds 95 percent of the time over a 10-year period.
Returns are likely to be overstated given that poor performers will drop out of the index (so-called survivorship bias) and that only funds that are initially successful will agree to report their numbers.
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Boeing led Dow components with a 3.4% gain, while American Express was the only member of the 30-stock index to finish in the red after the company said Monday it will fight an antitrust suit from the Department of Justice.
Not only was he saving his clients money, the index-tracking ETFs performed better as well, he said.
Also see Morningstar Long Only Global Commodity Index, up nearly 6% year-to-date, and more than 6% over the last 13 weeks.
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And the Housing Market Index, which measures the confidence of home-builders, declined to only 15 in March from an already dismal 17 in February.
The Kauffman Index is only a piece of the puzzle, but its mix of high-detail demographic information and high-level, multi-year trajectory evidence provide an important, unique and timely perspective on entrepreneurship in the United States.
Personally, I like to use a version of the ISE Sentiment Index that excludes indexes and exchange-traded funds ( ETFs) and focuses on equities only.
The FTSE index of shares in our biggest 100 companies ended the year lower than it started - only the third time since l980 that has happened.
Right now, the only sugar ETP available is iPath DJ-UBS Sugar TR Sub-Index ETN ( SGG).
Excluding food and energy, the index increased 0.2%, and only 1.5% on a year-to-year basis.
Britain's are among the least stringent job-protection laws: of the 40 countries in the index compiled by the OECD, only America and Canada have looser rules (see chart).
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The stronger U.S. dollar index that scored another fresh 7.5-month high overnight continues to limit buying interest not only in gold and silver, but in many other commodity markets, too.
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So, financial news that used to be an evening TV wrap-up of five or eight blue chips and an index has turned into a flood of data only specialists need to know.
Since 1919, the 500-stock index typically rallied 8.9% during the quarter in which the recession ended, but only 1% in the third quarter after the downturn ended.
The reason it puts some store in the data is that it says the last two times long-only buying was at these levels, March 2009 and July 2009, the MSCI Europe index performed very strongly over the next three months.
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Sticking only to investments of fairly low risk--say, Vanguard's Total Bond Market Index Fund, yielding 6.2% now--you can do much better than the 4% aftertax cost of a mortgage.
He made his name as a basher of burdensome bureaucracy, an issue on which Mr Tusk's government has made only slow progress: Poland is a mid-table laggard in the World Bank's index of business-friendliness.
Only time will tell if beer brand loyalty transcends consumer financial concerns or if the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index needs a reality refill.
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