Note: We are measuring the weekly change in stock holding value from May 25 to June 1.

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The daily price moves in the U.S. stock indexes continue to be the gauge for measuring investor risk appetite in the market place.

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Last year, Harry Kat, a professor at City University's Cass Business School in London, and three others used American stock and bond data from 1970 to 2003 in thousands of simulations measuring risk and return on ten-year Treasury bonds, alone and in more diversified portfolios.

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That would make a U.S.-based stock index, such as the broad-market Russell 3000, an appropriate measuring stick for the fund, Mr. Gogerty says.

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