Perhaps... I think the media & investors all pretty much focus on price, not total return indices, so I prefer to use them as benchmark (s). (wexboy.wordpress.com)
Any deviation of returns of index fund or ETF from the returns of underlying total return index is known as tracking error. (passivefunds.in)
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)