The index, part of the group's annual State of the World's Mothers report, is intended to illustrate the link between maternal and child well-being.
Soon after the column was published I got a scolding letter from John Bogle, founder of Vanguard Group and patron saint of cheap index funds.
On Sunday, a statement issued by the Frankfurt-based lender called the latest charges "regrettable" and said it "sincerely regrets the impact on the Kospi market of an index arbitrage position unwind involving a small number of Deutsche Bank Group employees".
Bogle, the founder of the Vanguard group and widely recognized as the father of index fund investing.
The Conference Board, a private research group, said its index of consumer confidence fell to 82.2 in November, its lowest level in more than seven years, compared with a downwardly revised 85.3 in October.
The Australian Industry Group's performance of manufacturing index rose to 45.6 in February from 40.2 in January.
The Australian Industry Group's performance of manufacturing index rose to a reading of 45.6 in February, from 40.2 in January.
In an index of perceptions produced by Transparency International, a monitoring group, India's score of 2.8 has remained constant for a decade.
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He cites the Historic Automobile Group International index that measures the performance of 50 popular classic cars and shows a 12% annual growth rate over the past 30 years.
The trade group said Tuesday its seasonally adjusted index of pending sales for existing homes fell to 82.3, the lowest point on record, from a downwardly revised October reading of 85.7.
So far, the discussions in this group seem to center around market timing of index funds.
The other camp favours the index of segregation, which measures how the members of an ethnic group are distributed.
The Couch Commerce index by Motif Investing can offer some insight into which group of retailers may outsell the other.
But the idea of a charter was criticised by free speech campaign group Index on Censorship.
"We are expecting a further correction in prices in the next couple of years, " said Mr. Loizou, who is in charge of the surveyor group's property price and rental index.
John Bogle, the founder of the Vanguard Investment Group, champions the passive, or index, approach to investment.
The weak performance of the Dow Jones Banking index should be less surprising, as the group is down 13.6% over the past three months.
Among this group were investors in index funds such as those of Vanguard, a mutual-fund company with a reputation for counting the pennies, which would surely have claimed if it could.
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Kraft Foods, which is spinning off its North American grocery business Oct. 1, will be removed from the 30-stock index after the close of trading Friday Sept. 21 and replaced by UnitedHealth Group.
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The Waltons were the biggest gainers of the day on the Forbes Real-Time index, which tracks the gains and losses in major public holdings of a select group of billionaires.
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The experiment faltered, and eBay gave up on Skype in 2009, selling a 70% stake to a group of technology investors including Silver Lake Partners, venture capital firms Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, who will make a handsome return on the Microsoft transaction.
Transparency International, a Berlin-based activist group, ranked Iraq 175th out of 182 countries in its corruption-perceptions index last year.
In the GoTo index, LyD in Chile received more nominations than any other market-oriented group, a total of 11.
The head of the global group brushed off the company's potential relegation from the FTSE 100 share index.
Software firm Autonomy and logistics group Exel are to drop out of the FTSE-100 following the blue-chip index's quarterly reshuffle.
One camp uses an index of isolation, which measures the likelihood that two inhabitants of an area will belong to the same ethnic group, to prove the existence of ghettos in Bradford, Leicester and Oldham.
One factor that makes indexing "a horrendous idea, " the renowned value investor Seth Klarman of Baupost Group argued earlier this year, is that hedge funds and others have long beaten the index funds to the punch on trades that the autopilot portfolios are forced to make.
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