Traditional benchmarks like the S&P 500 or Russell 1000 may work fine for actively managed large - cap stock funds, but they'll likely fail to do the job for target - date funds.
Not exact matches
While a
traditional index fund endeavors to passively track an index
like the S&P 500, smart beta funds restrict (or expand) their investment universe in comparison to the
benchmark in order to deliver a specific investment goal.
We believe the jump in
benchmark U.S. Treasury yields after Trump's surprise win, and the accompanying move toward cyclicals and away from bond -
like equities, represent an important regime shift for financial markets and highlight risks to
traditional portfolio diversification.
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Like their
traditional public school peers, students at Utah's charter schools struggled to reach new performance
benchmarks in math, science and English.
Looking both within and outside of the
benchmark, the Fund seeks relative value opportunities across
traditional investment - grade and high - yield bond sectors, also including nontraditional asset classes
like non-U.S. sovereign and corporate debt, convertibles, and floating - rate loans.