We select the 35 highest years (including years with zero earnings if you have fewer than 35 years with earnings) and determine
the average indexed monthly earnings.
Divide by 420 to get an increase of about $ 68 in
your average indexed monthly earnings.
Divide by 420 (the number of months in 35 years) to determine that
your average indexed monthly earnings will increase by $ 100.
So far we've considered only the way your added earnings will affect
average indexed monthly earnings (AIME).
So what this table shows is that your wages earned in each year you were working have been indexed to compare with the Average Wage Index for your age 62 year, then the top 35 indexed earnings years are totaled and divided by 420 to come up with
the Average Indexed Monthly Earnings — your very own AIME.
You start off with
your Average Indexed Monthly Earnings (AIME — which we defined here).
One of the key components that the Social Security Administration uses to calculate your Social Security retirement benefit is called
the Average Indexed Monthly Earnings, or AIME (don't you just love the acronym - loving Social Security Administration?
If you retire early, and as a result don't have 35 years of wages, you'll have years in which the calculation will include zero earnings, which will reduce
your average indexed monthly earnings.
How are the Average Monthly Earnings (AME) or
the Average Indexed Monthly Earnings (AIME) computed?
See: How are the Average Monthly Earnings (AME) or
the Average Indexed Monthly Earnings (AIME) computed?
For an individual who first becomes eligible for old - age insurance benefits or disability insurance benefits in 2013, or who dies in 2013 before becoming eligible for benefits, his / her PIA will be the sum of: (a) 90 percent of the first $ 791 of his /
her average indexed monthly earnings, plus (b) 32 percent of his /
her average indexed monthly earnings over $ 791 and through $ 4,768, plus (c) 15 percent of his /
her average indexed monthly earnings over $ 4,768.
Rather, how much you'll get in retirement is based on
your average indexed monthly earnings.
The top 35 inflation - indexed years are averaged together and divided by 12 to produce
your average indexed monthly earnings, or AIME.
Not exact matches
In August, the investment firm Richard Bernstein Advisors compared the performance of the
average investor — based on the
monthly flows of money in and out of mutual funds — against a variety of stock
indexes, commodities and other asset classes over a 20 - year period ending Dec. 31, 2013.
When the sentiment
index is more than one standard deviation above (below) its historical
average,
monthly returns
average -0.34 % (+1.18 %) for the value - weighted market and -0.41 % (2.75 %) percentage points for the equal - weighted market.
Investors can use the
monthly moving
average to determine when to invest in the
index or ETF.
These rates are based on a mortgage
index like the Monthly Treasury Average (MTA) or the 11th District Cost of Funds Index (C
index like the
Monthly Treasury
Average (MTA) or the 11th District Cost of Funds
Index (C
Index (COFI).
Major transfers to persons increased by $ 1.0 billion on a year - over - year basis, with virtually all of the increase attributable to higher elderly benefits, reflecting an increase in the eligible population base and in
average monthly benefits, which are
indexed to inflation.
They measure short term risk as the
average of the worst 1 % of annual returns from 10,000 bootstrapping simulations that randomly draw three months of returns at a time from 20 - year historical pool of returns for these
indexes, thereby preserving some
monthly return autocorrelations and cross-correlations.
We consider as benchmarks: an equally weighted portfolio of all mutual funds, rebalanced
monthly (EW All); buying and holding VTSMX; and, holding VTSMX when the S&P 500
Index is above its 10 - month simple moving average (SMA10) and Cash when the index is below its SMA10 (VTSMX: SM
Index is above its 10 - month simple moving
average (SMA10) and Cash when the
index is below its SMA10 (VTSMX: SM
index is below its SMA10 (VTSMX: SMA10).
Using
average daily yields for these instruments by calendar month (a smoothed measurement) and contemporaneous
monthly closes of the S&P 500
Index for April 1953 through March 2016 (756 months), we find that: Keep Reading
Over the entire sample period, the
average daily / weekly /
monthly returns of the world stock
index are higher than those of gold, and gold returns have higher standard deviations than stock returns.
To investigate, we compare SACEMS
monthly performance statistics when the S&P 500
Index at the previous
monthly close is above (bull market) or below (bear market) its 10 - month simple moving
average.
The SMA strategy enters (exits) an
index when its unadjusted
monthly close is above (below) the
average over the last 2 to 24 months.
The Global Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU)
Index is calculated as the GDP - weighted average of monthly EPU index values for the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Chile, the U.K., Germany, Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Russia, India, China, South Korea, Japan, Ireland and Australia, using GDP data from the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) World Economic Outlook Data
Index is calculated as the GDP - weighted
average of
monthly EPU
index values for the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Chile, the U.K., Germany, Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Russia, India, China, South Korea, Japan, Ireland and Australia, using GDP data from the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) World Economic Outlook Data
index values for the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Chile, the U.K., Germany, Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Russia, India, China, South Korea, Japan, Ireland and Australia, using GDP data from the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) World Economic Outlook Database.
The FAO Food Price
Index, which is a measure of the
monthly change in international food commodity prices,
averaged at 212 points in March 2013 — up 1 % from February 2012.
There are several sites that
index popular mom blogs, including Top Mommy Blogs, which lists the number of
average monthly referrals, as well as basic information about each blog's focus.
We allowed for
monthly leads and lags of the MEI up to ± 1 year; the PDO and AMO
indices were smoothed with a 5 - year running
average and only the zero - lag relationships with SST were considered.
PDO series is the calendar year
average of the
monthly index values, supplied by the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO).
The
index is one of the following three National Cost of Funds
Indexes: National
Monthly Median (1), Quarterly National
Average (2), Semiannual National
Average (3) Cost of Funds for OTS - regulated, SAIF - insured institutions.
Here is the formula used: Sortino is same as Sharpe except its denominator is the annualized downside deviation, which only uses
monthly returns falling below TBill
average, as shown here: Finally, Martin, which uses same numerator as Sharpe and Sortino, excess return relative to TBill, but it uses the Ulcer
Index (UI) for the denominator, which is the square root of the mean of the squared percentage draw downs in value.
Since 1991, when the market has been in its least - disperse quartile, the
average monthly deviation of the Aristocrats
index relative to its parent S&P 500 has been 0.71 %.
I want to construct my own
index: 3 - Year Moving
Average based on the 5 - Year CMT that changes
Monthly.
What is the difference between the
Monthly 1 - Year CMT
index and the
Monthly Treasury
Average index?
In my 401k, or other
index funds, I «ve been dollar cost
averaging those for years with
monthly contributions.
The BMO Asset Allocation Fund and the RBC
Monthly Income Fund (series F) outperformed the
index portfolio on three important benchmarks — the extent of their bear market losses, the magnitude of their subsequent recovery between March and June of this year, and their five - year
average returns.
Historically, the S&P / TSX Capped REIT Income
Index exhibited higher best
monthly returns,
average monthly returns, and maximum rolling 12 - month returns compared with the benchmark.
OTOH Once you've maxed out the tax deferred savings, or if you need to set aside money for large purchase with a big time horizon that is short of retirement age, then making regular
monthly investments in a no - load
index fund with a quality company is a great way to go as you will be taking advantage of Dollar Cost
Averaging, and a good deal of diversity, which is a great way to put money into the market.
The USD
Index was at its 200
monthly moving
average, so a bounce was not out of the ordinary.
With their byzantine methods of calculating returns (daily
average, annual point - to - point,
monthly point - to - point), for example, fixed
indexed annuities can get mind - numbingly complex.
Investors can use the
monthly moving
average to determine when to invest in the
index or ETF.
This historical
indexed annuity example illustrates a
monthly averaging strategy using the S&P 500 as the tracking
index.
Index A published interest rate against which lenders measure the difference between the current interest rate on an adjustable rate mortgage and that earned by other investments (such as one, three, and five year U.S. Treasury security yields, the
monthly average interest rate on loans closed by savings and loan institutions, and the
monthly average costs - of - funds incurred by savings and loans), which is then used to adjust the interest rate on an adjustable mortgage up or down.
The two most popular are the MTA (
monthly treasury
average) and the COFI (cost of funds
index).
Over the 14 — year period ending Feb. 28, 2017, the S&P Global Natural Resources
Index, which is designed to provide market participants with an equity - based approach to natural resource investments through its three commodity - related sectors (agribusiness, energy, and metals & mining), has outperformed the S&P Global BMI by a
monthly average of 36 bps in high - inflation months.
The Federal Cost of Funds
Index (COFI) is calculated as the sum of the
monthly average interest rates for marketable Treasury bills and for marketable Treasury notes, divided by two, and rounded to three decimal places.
-- CODI — Certificate of Deposit
Index — COFI — 11th District Cost of Funds
Index — COSI — Cost of Savings
Index — LIBOR — London Interbank Offered Rate — CMT — Constant Maturity Treasury — MTA —
Monthly Treasury
Average
Using daily and
monthly (approximated) total returns of the S&P 500
Index and the Dow Jones Industrial
Average (DJIA), along with the U.S. Treasury bill (T - bill) yield as the return on cash, during January 1950 through December 2012, he finds that: Keep Reading
The
index returns are calculated using
monthly equal - weighted geometric
averages of the total returns of all dividend - paying (or non dividend - paying) stocks.
Exhibit 1 shows the rolling two - year correlation of the
average monthly return of unconstrained bond funds to that of the U.S. and global aggregate bond
indices.