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Journal of Indexes: Index Portfolio Management

July / August 2005
Editor's Note

Editor's Note

by Journal of Indexes Staff

Articles

Time Is Of The Essence

by Meric Koksal and Margaret Anadu

Intraday share count adjustments to S&P 500 companies present an underexploited trading opportunity.

Beating The Drag

by David Lerman

How can an index fund manager put millions of dollars in new inflows to work quickly? Lerman has the answer.

Managing Efficient Equity Baskets

by Srikant Dash, Niklas Wagner, Bernhard Bruck and Christian Diller

Tracking an index while controlling costs and managing turnover can be tricky—a guide to sensible sampling.

A Brave New World

by Craig Israelsen, Jacob Sybrowsky

ETFs square off against index funds in the battle of the century. At stake? Billions of dollars in investment capital.

Talking Indexes

by David Blitzer

Blitzer shines light on the dirty underside of the active vs. indexing debate: Index funds lag the market, too.

Journal Of Indexes Analysis

by Journal of Indexes Staff

The Journal of Indexes considers Gus Fleites’ departure from SSgA and its impact on the ETF industry.

Bogle’s Corner

by John Bogle

Someday soon, the real owners of America’s corporations stock holders will demand performance.

Weighty Matters

by Chih-Wei Huang

What if free-float weighting isn’t the best indexing methodology? Huang offers an alternative.

Professor’s Reading Room

by John Haslem, David Smith and Kent Baker

Investors in expensive mutual funds get hit twice: They pay high fees and get poor performance in return.

On The Record

by Journal of Indexes Staff

SSgA's new ETF leadership team discusses strategy for the post-Fleites era.
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