The MSCI Asia Pacific index is down 2.8% this year and lost 11% in the past month.
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The Vanguard Group manages index funds and ETFs that track the MSCI EAFE and its two components, the MSCI European Index and MSCI Pacific Index.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index has fallen nearly 17% over the past year, compared with a nearly 13% drop in the broader Dow Jones Asia-Pacific index over the same period.
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These funds are the Developed Markets Index Fund ( VDMIX), the European Stock Index Fund ( VEURX) and the Pacific Stock Index Fund ( VPACX).
In aggregate the market-cap-weighted shares of our 2010 class were up 43% over 12 months versus 21% for the FTSE Asia Pacific Small Cap stock index.
Ward's portfolio has risen 1.7% against the benchmark MSCI Asia Pacific Free ex-Japan index, which has fallen 13.3% since February.
The MSCI index of Asia Pacific stocks outside Japan was down 1.1 percent , with industrials and commodity-related stocks underperforming the most.
The MSCI index of Asia Pacific shares outside Japan was flat.
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These short-term global fluctuations are associated principally with natural oscillations of tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures summarized in the Nino index in the lower part of the figure. 2012 is nominally the 9th warmest year, but it is indistinguishable in rank with several other years, as shown by the error estimate for comparing nearby years.
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This weighting methodology tends to skew the index to European stocks at times, and Pacific Rim stocks at other times, depending on the economics and currency fluctuations in those regions.
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