It tracks an equally weighted index of 15 MLPs in the natural gas infrastructure sub-segment.
This technique reduced the average market cap relative to the cap weighted index and helped boost the return.
Traditional capitalization-weighted index funds are lower cost, while alternative indexes often have higher exposures to size and value factors.
Other equal-weight ETFs also lose the price battle to cap-weighted index funds.
However, the current trade weighted index (TWI) has the majors undervalued by -8% when compared to the mean of the last three decades.
Last week, the market noted that the current trade weighted index (TWI) has the majors undervalued by -8% when compared to the mean of the last three decades.
Market cap-weighted index funds present several risks to the investor.
They could also purchase one of the many alternative-weighted index funds that use fundamental factors, such as the Powershares FTSE RAFI US 1500 Small-Mid Index ETF (Ticker: PRFZ).
The Morgan Stanley Commodity Related Index (CRX) is an equal-dollar weighted index of 20 stocks involved in commodity related industries such as energy, non-ferrous metals, agriculture, and forest products.
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The central bank also said it would peg its plunging currency at a level of 131 kroner to the euro, or a trade-weighted index of 175, in the inter-bank market.
Indeed, the drop in the Australian dollar today is much less alarming than the fall of the mid-1980s, when its trade-weighted index declined 40% in the space of 18 months.
Credit Suisse Cushing 30 MLP Index ETN ( MLPN), launched in April 2010, tracks an equal-weighted index comprised of 30 publicly traded stocks in the North American energy infrastructure niche, primarily midstream energy assets.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, SHLD and SBAC collectively make up 1.96% of the Direxion NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index Shares ETF (QQQE) which is lower by about 0.4% on the day Friday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, XRAY and VMED collectively make up 2.14% of the Direxion NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index Shares ETF (QQQE) which is lower by about 0.4% on the day Friday.
Traditional all-market-cap-weighted index funds guarantee that you will receive your fair share of stock market returns, and virtually assure that you will outperform, over the long term, 90% or more of the other investors in the marketplace.
For each stock, StarMine scores the analyst based on the level of recommendation (strong buy, buy, hold, sell or strong sell) and the performance of the stock relative to a market-cap-weighted index of the stocks in the same industry.
Typically, when believers talk about previous secular bear markets, they measure using the Dow (a faulty, price-weighted index which makes returns fairly arbitrary and not reflective of economic reality), or they measure the Dow without dividends reinvested (which is really stretching reality).
Oxford Economics built a unique global ranking model based on a weighted composite index to compare and benchmark employee diversity across countries, industries and occupations.
The Dow Jones index of leading US shares gained 2.9% to close up 255.26 points at 8, 931.68 while the technology weighted Nasdaq index rose 3%, or 43.51 points, to close at 1, 487.94.
The trade-weighted exchange rate index for the euro dropped from 114 in December 2008 to 96 in August 2012, a fall of 16%.
Select Sector SPDR-Financial (XLF) has 81 cap-weighted holdings, Vanguard Financial Index Fund (VFH) has 492 cap-weighted holdings, iShares Dow Jones US Financial Sector (IYF) has 258 cap-weighted holdings and , iShares Dow Jones US Financial Services (IYG) has 119 cap-weighted holdings.
The Index is a rules-based, modified global-capitalization-weighted, float-adjusted index intended to give investors a means of tracking the overall performance of a global universe of listed companies engaged in the solar energy industry.
The benchmark Lehman U.S. Aggregate index is weighted 18.6% to corporate bonds and 42% to mortgages, which is its biggest sector.
They say the slide in the Euro Stoxx 50 came because the index is weighted more toward financial firms than other indexes are.
No additional income would be generated for what the manager earned from the weighted elements of the index would simply become a monetary transfer to the client.
The index comprises four weighted measures: 50% STEM occupation growth, 25% technology industry growth, 12.5% STEM occupation concentration, and 12.5% technology industry concentration.
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The index is proportionally weighted based on foreign-exchange trading volume data from the Bank for International Settlements' triennial central-bank survey on global foreign-exchange market activity.
Her injunction means that when the new index is launched on September 3rd Elektra will be weighted using the old methodology and the 34 other companies on the index will be assessed under the new rules.
These upstarts declare that investors will do better with index funds that are weighted by fundamentals like the dividends, sales and profits of the component companies.
The index is 76% weighted to a long position in futures contracts on two-year Treasury yields and 24% weighted to a short position in 10-year Treasury yields.
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