Sentences with phrase «even broader index»

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Even if you just buy a broad - based index fund, you're predicting the broader market will go up.

The fact that this ratio is now at the bottom band for most broadly defined stock indices suggests that the risk of continued underperformance by the broad market - versus large - cap indices - is substantially less than it was on April 5th, or even June 30th, when the most recent downdraft started.

The severe volatility has also frayed investors «nerves even though the broad market index was where they were nine weeks ago.

That's because even moderate tracking differences between a broad portfolio of individual stocks and the market indices used to hedge them can create unpredictability over shorter segments of the market cycle.

If a stock or ETF is so strong that is manages to continue trending higher, even while the broad market is going sideways, that equity typically surges much higher when the major indices eventually rally as well.

Yet even as the broader indexes fell, some individual companies had good news to report.

The key takeaway from the report is that it will feed into the slowdown narrative that has been building with the flattening yield curve, even though there is still broad - based strength in the components that drive the overall index reading.

The S&P 600 Small Cap Index is trading at a lofty 21 times forward earnings and the broader Russell 2000 Index of small - cap stocks at 27 times, even after assuming a significant tax cut - fueled earnings acceleration in the next 12 months.

In housing, there remains a wide gap between broad home price indices and measures of personal income, even adjusting for mortgage rates.

Even if a state's concussion safety law does cover community - based, private sports programs, very few states have enacted laws that cover all aspects of youth sports safety, such as requiring more broad - based safety training for coaches in first - aid, CPR, and the use of an AED, and the development and implementation of an Emergency Action Plan (EAP) to be triggered in case of medical emergencies, such as a cardiac event (e.g. sudden cardiac arrest), asthma attack, allergic reaction to a bee sting, or heat stroke, and environmental emergencies (lighting, tornado, or an excessively high heat index).

Even the broadest and most senior indices change behavior; you'll find individual investors fretting they're underperforming the S&P 500 and not have an inkling as to why they should care.

They fail to appreciate that even 30 or 40 individual companies provides less diversification than even one broad - market index fund.

It's true that most actively managed funds did even worse, and that broad - market index funds are now capped so no company can ever make up more than 10 %.

The evidence for this alert of underwhelming importance was that even though broad market indices like the Standard & Poor's 500 hadn't dropped 20 % from their previous peak, many small stocks as well as the small - cap Russell 2000 index were off more than 20 % from their peaks.

However, you can also buy dividend ETFs that provide a good option within the passive tradition, even though they are not based on classic broad - based market indices.

As you probably know, ETFs may track a commodity such as gold, a basket of commodities such as agricultural crops, a broad index like the S&P 500, an industry sector such as financials, the economy of a specific country like Japan or Brazil, or even a group of countries designated as «emerging markets».

Russel 2000 is a broad market index with relatively even sectors representation.

In developed markets like the US, many funds are benchmarked to broad market indices such as the Russell 3000 or even total market indices such as the Wilshire 5000 and these have proved far harder to beat than the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Even broad cap - weighted indices can be considered a form of active management, not so much against the capital markets they purport to represent, but against the macroeconomy.

Since its inception in late 2011, the iShares fund has nearly doubled, outperforming the S&P 500, even though the ETF has moved with fewer bumps in the road than the broader index.

One Answer to the Index Fund: Build a Better Index Several companies say they already have created a better mousetrap — broad index funds that can beat the overall market, rather than merely matching it, even including Index Fund: Build a Better Index Several companies say they already have created a better mousetrap — broad index funds that can beat the overall market, rather than merely matching it, even including Index Several companies say they already have created a better mousetrap — broad index funds that can beat the overall market, rather than merely matching it, even including index funds that can beat the overall market, rather than merely matching it, even including fees.

As of July 31, 2015, the broadest FTSE RAFI indices have exceeded the performance of corresponding cap - weighted indices since their November 2005 inception, even though value indices have been savaged.

Given that these will be extremely long - term investments — they won't even touch the money for 10 to 15 years at minimum — you'll typically want to invest in broad market index funds.

This is why long - term under - performance of broad indexes will continue even with the savings in active management fees.

Even if you identified any stock that has been up every month for a consecutive 24 months in the past, there is nothing that says it will be so in the future, and a broad market selloff will effect both indexes as well as individual stocks.

This year, all three of our core Canadian equity ETFs are back: Two broad - market picks from Vanguard and iShares have rock - bottom management fees of 0.05 %, while a third, Horizons S&P / TSX 60 Index ETF (HXT), pushed even lower to 0.03 %.

Even though it doesn't track a broad market index, Mordy prefers VFV over VUN because its management fee of 0.08 % is half of the broader VUN.