First, an index fund dominated by one or two sectors, or by one or two countries, is not as vulnerable as a fund
dominated by a single company.
Not exact matches
Sayanogorsk was founded along with the plant in 1976, one of 319 officially designated «
single company» towns in Russia, of which ten are
dominated by Rusal, according to 2015 figures.
It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market -
dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for
by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed,
single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance
companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid
by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.
Today most investors view the Russell 2000 as the best indicator of the small
company performance in the market, and the index is very general, meaning it is not
dominated by a
single industry as some of the other indexes are.
Single - family management is a good niche for smaller
companies because it's not
dominated by the large full - service management and brokerage
companies, says Russell Munz, co-owner of Pyramid Real Estate Group in Stamford, Conn., and author of The Quick Start Property Manager Program.