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Journal of Indexes: Fixing Fixed Income

January/February 2012
Editor's Note

A Fresh Angle On Bond Indexing

by Jim Wiandt

Articles

A Review Of Alternative Approaches To Fixed-Income Indexing

by Charles Thomas and Donald Bennyhoff

Can market-cap weighting be improved upon?

A Fundamentally Weighted Broad-Based Fixed-Income Index

by Shane Shepherd

An alternative bond investing paradigm

Market-Implied Default Probabilities And Credit Indexes

by Terry Benzschawel, Cheng-Yen Lee, Brent Hawker and David Craft

Weighting issuers in bond indexes by risk of default

Optimizing Fixed-Income Index Funds

by Stephen Laipply and Christopher Woida

Trade-offs in portfolio construction and management

Rethinking The Barclays Aggregate As An Investment

by Rich Wiggins

The popular benchmark comes with some drawbacks

Bond Indexing Ripe For A Renaissance?

by David Krein and John Prestbo

As demand from investors for fixed-income investments grows, so too do opportunities for index providers

Bespoke Investing

by David Blitzer

When the lines between asset classes begin to blur

Perspectives On Fixed-Income Index Design

by Brian Upbin

Comparing market-value-weighted benchmarks with other bond index design alternatives

Not Quite Rocket Science

by Heather Bell

Solving the Greek debt crisis

News
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INDEXING DEVELOPMENTS
AROUND THE WORLD OF ETFs
BACK TO THE FUTURES
KNOW YOUR OPTIONS
FROM THE EXCHANGES
ON THE MOVE
Stats
Selected Major Indexes
Largest U.S. Index Mutual Funds
Morningstar U.S. Style Overview
Dow Jones Indexes U.S. Industry Review
Exchange-Traded Funds Corner
Contributors

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