Hong Kong's futures exchange is objecting to Simex's index product on the grounds that different regulations in the two cities could open the way for attacks on the SAR's bourse.
The Toronto Exchange in Canada was the first to issue an ETF-type product known as Toronto Index Participation Units (TIP 35) in March 1990.
Imagine if you could see the index of your product marketing vs. your competitor?
The Arkansas-based company is the primary funder behind the Sustainability Consortium, a multi-stakeholder initiative that is developing a sustainability index at the product level.
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While it makes sense for The Economist to compute a Big Mac Index for a product that is basically the same wherever it is sold, price comparisons of services that are highly differentiated across countries are less revealing.
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Not surprisingly, the countries are wealthy and among the world's greenest as well, according to the Environmental Performance Index, a joint product of Columbia University and Yale University, which measures performance against 25 indicators, such as measures of air pollution, water supply or use of natural resources.
If consistent performance is a product of skill as Mauboussin contends, than index fund investing is certainly a skillful decision for an investor to make.
In the short term the Higg Index is an assessment tool built for product assessment.
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However, index based products offer skinny margins to product manufacturers.
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In Britain, Barclays Global Investors, part of the banking group, has become the world's fourth-biggest asset manager after acquiring Wells Nikko, an index-fund provider that was itself the product of a joint venture between an American and a Japanese firm.
The product was followed by HIPs, which tracked the Toronto 100 Index.
Later this month, the Department of Enterprise will begin publishing a composite economic index which will effectively produce a separate gross domestic product (GDP) figure for Northern Ireland.
With the Honesty Index, the company cleverly dubbed their results with a label that is instantly tied to their product name, as should we.
But reasonably sophisticated investors can create the same product themselves by purchasing a risk-free zero-coupon Treasury bond and call options on a stock index, such as XSP options traded on the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
Singapore, for example, is the center for trade in Japanese stock index futures, and it once tried - but failed - to launch a Hong Kong-derived product.
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