Rebalancing adjusts stock weightings within a style index so that it holds the correct percentage relative to index rules.
The fund had performed impressively, beating the FTSE index by five percentage points.
All of these off-shoot predictions supplement the official computer model used by the NCAA, which is called the Rating Percentage Index.
The index tracks the percentage of optimistic investors minus the percentage of pessimistic investors, and can swing between a theoretical maximum of 100 and minimum of -100.
Each factor involves the RPI (Ratings Percentage Index) that is used by the NCAA to measure a team's strength of schedule as well as its performance against that schedule.
They beat Notre Dame twice in a six-day span 10-4 in the season finale and 9-3 in the Big East tournament when the stingy Irish defense had them ranked No. 1 in the Ratings Percentage Index, used to stack teams based on wins and losses and strength of schedule.
It has beaten the Russell 1000 index by a full percentage point (with a 3.2% annual return to 2.2% for the index).
They are likely to outdo similarly invested index funds by half a percentage point or so per year.
Cranfield University produces what it calls the " Female FTSE Index, " showing the percentage of female directors in Britain's top 100 companies.
Academic estimates are that these statistical biases of self-selection (reporting is optional for the largely unregulated hedge fund industry) add 3-5 percentage points to index returns.
We focus on the percentage of issues in the index currently quoted at distressed levels. (We define distressed as a spread over Treasuries of 10 percentage points or more.) Distressed companies historically have defaulted at a rate of nearly 25% per year, while the rate for non-distressed companies is only 1%.
Price increases also picked-up by a full percentage point to an index value of 56.5.
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Take percentage changes in the index, and then find the correlations across metropolitan areas.
The rise snapped a four-day losing streak and was the index's second highest daily percentage rise in 2013.
The index is calculated by subtracting the percentage of firms saying business conditions are bad from those saying they are good.
By contrast, the Mountain Region Index is currently 9.5 percentage points below its January 2007 level, and was down 16.5 percentage points at its nadir.
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The fund gained 1.32% Monday, outperforming its benchmark, the Lehman Brothers U.S. Aggregate Index, by 0.51 percentage point, according to Chicago investment-research firm Morningstar Inc.
Assuming a similar spread back to 1985, this index is likely concealing about 20 percentage points of real growth in state higher education spending per FTE student.
One proxy for borrowing costs, the iTraxx Europe Senior Financials index, is back above three percentage points, after falling to 1.81 percentage points in March from a record 3.53 percentage points in late November.
The fall was so abysmal that it remains the index's biggest one-day percentage loss ever.
Non-manufacturing purchasing manager index for March rose 1.1 percentage points to 55.6.
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In all six cycles one index outperformed the other by at least 50 percentage points.
From 1971 (the year Nixon broke the gold window) through 1974, the annual percentage change on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased from 4.4% to 11.0%.
Unit trusts on average perform about 1.5 percentage points a year worse than whatever index they are intending to outperform.
From 1974 until today, each year Social Security benefits have gone up by a percentage based on the broad Consumer Price Index.
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Goldman Sachs's calculations suggest that, to reduce growth from 4% to 3%, (an optimistic estimate of America's new sustainable growth rate) the financial conditions index would need to increase by 1.25 percentage points.
Carlson has delivered a 13% compound annual return since then, a percentage point better than the emerging market index and better than double what you would have earned from the collection of high-grade U.S. paper in the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund .
That factor alone raised the Consumer Price Index for October by just under one third of a percentage point.
Strategas now looks at the intensity of lobbying expenditure as a percentage of assets to create an index of 50 firms that is revised quarterly.
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