Do you have any suggestions on other ways that I can obtain historical total return index data for asset classes, both domestic and foreign? (early-retirement-planning-insights.com)
A «price return index» is any index with any weighting scheme that only accounts for price changes in the underlying securities. (indexologyblog.com)
The last link above says that only 30 % of actively managed funds beat the total return index over any time period from 1 to 10 years. (vipinkhandelwal.com)