TOPIC - Index Funds

 
Asian Indexes, Funds Continue To Grow
The past few months have seen more signs that Asian indexes and index funds are becoming more important to investors in the Asia-Pacific region.
Journal of Indexes Staff Saturday, 01 January 2000
 
Diversity-Weighted Equity Indexes
Diversity weighting, the author’s alternative to capitalization weighting, should add 45 basis points per year to returns on average, by his calculation. After 1998, when the U.S. equity markets became concentrated in a small number of the largest companies to a historic degree, this method might have even greater potential value if there is regression toward the historical mean.
Robert Fernholz, Ph.D. Thursday, 01 April 1999
 
Inside Your SPDRs and WEBS
Modest-looking but crucial modifications to the fundamental design of Universal Investment Trusts and mutual funds are at the root of SPDRs, WEBS and Diamonds. They have given the American Stock Exchange a new lease on life. The reason is simple: The new structures allow professional investors and money managers to reap important benefits.
Nathan Most Thursday, 01 April 1999
 
Amex: The Indexes Exchange?
It’s beginning to look like one. The first index-based unit investment trusts to trade on the American Stock Exchange were the Standard & Poor’s Depository Receipts, or SPDRs, in 1993.
Journal of Indexes Staff Thursday, 01 April 1999
 
New Indexes Are Breaking Out All Over
While companies like FTSE International, Dow Jones, S&Pand MSCI seem to dominate the indexing industry, they are hardly the only players on the field.
Journal of Indexes Staff Thursday, 01 April 1999
 
Tracking Index People
Journal of Indexes Staff Thursday, 01 April 1999
 
Socially Responsible Investing -Does Doing Good Do So Well?
Journal of Indexes Staff Thursday, 01 April 1999
 
If Indexes Are Proliferating, Can Index Funds Be Far Behind?
Journal of Indexes Staff Thursday, 01 April 1999
 
What Is Style?
Defining growth stocks vs. value stocks by measures like price-to-book is often unsatisfactory.
Satya Pradhuman Friday, 01 January 1999
 
The Case Against Indexing
Birinyi Associates studied the index fund phenomenon and found a lot to criticize in something so hugely successful.
Birinyi Associates Inc. Friday, 01 January 1999
 
The Case For Indexing
Barclays Global Investors commissioned a study of the index fund phenomenon.
Andrew Olma, Paul Kelash Friday, 01 January 1999
 
S&P 500 Funds: Money Flows Out Even While They Grow
Journal of Indexes Staff Friday, 01 January 1999
 
This Index Is Wired
Journal of Indexes Staff Friday, 01 January 1999
 
New Index Fund Invests In Nascar Racing Sponsors’ Stocks
Journal of Indexes Staff Friday, 01 January 1999
 
New Canadian Index Funds –Part One
Altamira Investment Services became yet another of the growing number of Canadian investment companies to offer its own series of index funds when it released its Precision family of funds on Nov. 9, 1998.
Journal of Indexes Staff Friday, 01 January 1999
 
NASDAQ 100 Draws Investment Products
The new year saw the introduction of some new investment products based on the Nasdaq 100 index.
Journal of Indexes Staff Friday, 01 January 1999
 
Beating Benchmarks, Even a Bit, Is Tough
Enhancing something is supposed to improve it. So "enhanced index" mutual funds ought to be better than plain-vanilla index funds.
Journal of Indexes Staff Friday, 01 January 1999
 
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