With bonds, the Fundamental
Index strategy performs best when the market is reassessing and reining in the valuations of the most deeply indebted companies.
It's analogous to the story within stocks that the Fundamental
Index strategy performs best when value is winning, and not so well when growth is winning.
In addition and of more practical use, the study also found that 13 alternative
indexing strategies all performed better than the market - capitalization indexes.
Not exact matches
In my experience, a dividend growth portfolio
strategy seems to be
performing better as an investment than owning a home, in my honest opinion, I would rather rent in a great area than own a home in that area, jeez if I were able to get a lease agreement for 10 years
indexed at inflation or at 2.5 % increase annually I would take it and take my down payment and invest it in my portfolio, and continue to contribute the max in my 401K, HSA, and Roth IRA, while enjoying living in a low tax bracket because of my contributions.
Of course there will be times when equities like an S&P 500
index fund will strongly outperform the 50/50 allocation to the S&P and NEARX combo, but George and Karen's story is one example of how these two investment
strategies have previously
performed.
In contrast, enhanced
index funds can weight undervalued stocks more heavily, include a larger proportion of securities in higher -
performing sectors, or use other investment
strategies to try and achieve a better return than the
index it tracks.
Not only are
index funds cheaper, they've repeatedly proven to
perform much better than active investing
strategies.
Year - to - date returns of
strategies with higher yielding stocks
performed worse than their lower yielding counterparts, although the S&P Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend
Index proved to be the slight exception.
I keep applying my
strategy, because over the long run it will out
perform indexes.
Energy was the weakest -
performing group for the broad
index, and the
Strategy's names
performed in line.
I wanted to
perform my own analysis on how often a buy and hold
strategy on the S&P 500
index is making new equity highs.
The «alpha» or excess return above the benchmark
index, is the component of a portfolio's performance that arises from the fact that a expert investment
strategy selects better
performing stocks than those available in the benchmark
index.
It was a huge undertaking, but I think it will provide
index investors with a reasonable idea of how the
strategy performed over the last 15 years (from 1997 through 2011).