Sentences with phrase «equity index funds saw»

Although U.S. stocks have risen in value in their native currency over that period, U.S. equity index funds saw negative returns when measured in Canadian dollars.

Not exact matches

U.S. Equity Funds enjoyed a record - breaking surge of fresh money during the second week of March, as investors shrugged off an impending U.S. rate hike and the internal struggles of Trump's administration and chased a rally that saw the benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average Index climb more than 400 points in a day.

The iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund (NYSE: IWM) is up 4.5 percent in the past month, but if September lives up to historical billing as a sour month for equities, it would not be surprising to see traders hammer ETFs such as IWM and select small - cap names.

We haven't seen such journalistic conviction about the demise of a market mainstay since Businessweek pronounced the «Death of Equities» in 1979 (the S&P 500 has since risen almost 19-fold).1 Even Warren Buffett, who amassed a fortune through active investing and entrusts Berkshire Hathaway's vaunted equity portfolio to two hedge fund managers, has recently recommended buying an index tracker.

We haven't seen such journalistic conviction about the demise of a market mainstay since Businessweek pronounced the «Death of Equities» in 1979 (the S&P 500 has since risen almost 19-fold).1 Even Warren Buffett, who amassed a fortune through active investing and entrusts Berkshire Hathaway's vaunted equity portfolio to two hedge fund managers, has recently recommended buying an index tracker.

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It's not just black - box program trading that destabilizes the equity markets, as we have seen, but perhaps even more, index fund «program trading» as retail investors move more and more into index funds.

For all the gory details of the index methodologies used for the funds discussed in this post, see the MSCI Methodology Book: MSCI US Equity Indices

But, speaking generally, an all equity portfolio comprising an S&P 500 index fund worked terrifically in a secular equity bull market, such as we saw from 1982 - 2000.

As you can see from the following chart, which shows the percentage of index fund assets as total assets in equity mutual funds from 1985 to 2007.