For example, the S&P 500
Equal Weight Index rebalances quarterly to equal weight each stock in the S&P 500 at the company level of 1/500 = 0.02 %.
Not exact matches
As we noted earlier this month when we revealed this year's list, an
equal -
weighted portfolio of Fortune 500 stocks held since 1980,
rebalanced with each new year's list, would have earned twice the return of an investment in broader market
indices.
Sell decisions are based exclusively upon the quarterly
rebalance and reconstitution of the Russell 1000 ®
Equal Weight Health Care
Index as provided by the Frank Russell Company pursuant to a licensing agreement.
Sell decisions are based exclusively upon the quarterly
rebalance and reconstitution of the Russell 1000 ®
Equal Weight Technology
Index as provided by the Frank Russell Company pursuant to a licensing agreement.
Sell decisions are based exclusively upon the quarterly
rebalance and reconstitution of the Russell 1000 ®
Equal Weight Consumer Discretionary
Index as provided by the Frank Russell Company pursuant to a licensing agreement.
Sell decisions are based exclusively upon the quarterly
rebalance and reconstitution of the Russell 1000 ®
Equal Weight Materials andProcessing
Index as provided by the Frank Russell Company pursuant to a licensing agreement.
Equally
weighting the
index also pairs with our value factor by avoiding many of the glamour stocks, and
rebalancing back to
equal weight captures benefits of mean reversion.
The authors also identify
rebalancing's influence on popular current alternative
index strategies, such as
equal weighting, diversity
weighting, maximum diversification, fundamental
weighting, and minimum variance.
An
equal weighted index removes the large cap bias of a market cap
weighted index (small caps make up a larger part of the fund) along with the flawed
rebalancing rules (it buys low and sells high).
The downside is that it is more expensive to regularly
rebalance an
equal -
weighted index.