The note consists of futures of contracts of seven agricultural commodities (soybeans, corn, wheat, cotton, soybean oil, coffee and sugar) and tracks the return of the Dow Jones-UBS Agriculture Total Return Sub-Index.
You could, for example, buy the iPath Dow Jones-AIG Lead Total Return Sub-Index or PowerShares DWA Emerging Markets Technical Leaders.
The iPath DJ-UBS Copper Total Return Sub-Index ETN ( JJC) is the most liquid of the exchange traded products that follow copper prices.
For example, for the 18-mo period ending July 2001the MSCI Emerging Total Return Index was -36.4%, MSCI Emerging Price Index was -38.6%, and the structured note therefore was -28.6%.
Two others have exposure to oil futures: iPath Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) Crude Oil Total Return Index Exchange Traded Note and PowerShares Deutsche Bank (nyse: DB - news - people ) Oil Fund.
The MSCI Greece stock index has a 12-month total return of 42%, a tad ahead of 41% for the MSCI Europe index.
The average 18-mo return for the Emerging Total Return Index (price index including dividends) is 22.4%.
For the Barclays 10-year Municipal Bond Index, the results were similar: total return for the period was 6.133%, with 1.346% coming from price and 4.795% from coupons.
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If stocks match the historical average return of about 7.5% for 1999 through 2019, the index would wind up twice as high and the 10-year total return from the 2009 low would average 18%!
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Although REITs aren't the same bargain they were in 2000, over the past five years, the widely-followed Morgan Stanley REIT Index (amex: RMS - news - people ), which measures total return--including dividends-- has risen 20.4% per year.
Collections of properties that kick off rental income, REITs have clocked an annual 24% total return--that's appreciation plus dividends--over the past three years, versus the broad stock index's 7.5%.
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