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Dr Dickie added: «Through a unique collaboration between the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, which is funded by the Stroke Association in the UK, the next step is to test the brain health index approach in newly - developed brain scanners, such as the ultra-high resolution 7 Tesla scanner at the University of Glasgow's Imaging Centre of Excellence, and in larger groups of patients.

Not exact matches

But while Saunders» resume may ultimately be defined by his role in several massive mergers, his reputation in biotech is rooted in a rock»em, sock»em approach to deal - making which has led to his reputation as one of the industry's biggest boosters — especially in a year when biotech has been hopelessly floundering in the marketplace, with major sector indices plunging by 20 %.

Tanner argues investing even just a portion of it would allow for the government to purchase a commanding share of almost every major company in the U.S. Even if that money were invested in index funds (which is the approach Munnell supports), the way the government managed its voting rights could effectively allow it to «pick winners» among corporate entities.

In response, Silveira will supplement a core of index investments with funds that take a more actively managed socially responsible approach.

Stock indexes rallied as investors continued to find good cheer in the Federal Reserve's accommodative approach to monetary policy.

High - yield bonds delivered another year of strong performance in 2017, with the benchmark Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate High Yield 2 % Issuer Capped Index returning 7.2 % as we approached year - end.

For many investors, the decision starts with whether to take an active or an indexed approach to investing in EM equities.

However, deconstructing this year's performance by the S&P 500 Index in the chart below helps to underscore the potentially overlooked concentration risks that a home - biased approach can represent.

On the heels of a momentum - based environment in 2017, we may be approaching a market inflection point that could benefit Fundamental Index ™ strategies.

The index's surge hinges on both developments in the Russia probe, as well as the White House's increasingly combative approach to Mueller.

It may be that one can find investors who simply wish to participate in the broader economy in a manner that index funds represent, and for them the passive approach makes good sense.

In recent years, however, a new approach to index investing — smart beta — has started to gain traction among investors.

«SPMV's approach has similarities to USMV in that it includes sector constraints, but it's done relative to the large - cap index,» said Rosenbluth.

We believe that we can observe this presence in recent market down days, when mysterious rallies occur as indices approach dangerous technical levels defined by conventional moving averages.

The Vanguard small - cap value index fund looks to take an index - like approach and invest in small - cap stocks that appear to be undervalued at current levels.

In June 2016 BBVA Chief U.S. Economist Nathaniel Karp, citing BBVA Research's Political Uncertainty Index, said companies large and small were adopting a «wait and see» approach ahead of the election.

Though the gain in the S&P 500 since 2014 is likely to be wiped out rather easily, the challenge for hedged equity strategies in the interim has been the extended duration of this top formation, coupled with a feverish shift of investors toward indexing, which has benefited the capitalization - weighted indices relative to a wide range of historically effective stock - selection approaches.

In particular, you should consider index funds for their low - cost and tax efficient approach.

Standard & Poor's 500 Index constituents are poised to repurchase as much as $ 165 billion of stock this quarter, approaching a record reached in 2007.

Of the 61 companies in the Bloomberg Intelligence North American Independent Explorers & Producers index, 25 use that approach, including Devon Energy Corp., Apache Corp. and Chesapeake Energy Corp. 2.

While the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology Index does come with a somewhat rich expense ratio of 0.47 %, it also offers a super easy route toward a highly diversified — and therefore far less risky — approach to investing in biotech.

As you can see in the chart above, the VIX index moved steadily higher as the market approached the peak of the late 1990s technology bubble, calmed down during the steady growth period of 2003 - 2007, then spiked during the 2008 credit crisis and in the latter half of 2011.

Arguably a pretty conservative investment approach, the historical performance of the Coffeehouse portfolio has been strong over time — generating 5 % + over the past 10 years, but it still falls short when compared to investing in a total stock market index fund or S&P 500 fund that track those market indexes.

- Founded by South African - born Gary Boom, Bordeaux Index has grown rapidly on the back of its informal, unstuffy approach and now employs over 40 staff operating from offices in London's Hatton Gardens, Hong Kong and Singapore LiveTrade — the online wine trading platform launched in 2009 — tracks live changes in the prices of 80 - 100 of the most liquidly traded wines on its market - making screen.

Please visit SportsInsights regularly — and stay - tuned — for more information about these sports investing indexes that can help measure the performance of various approaches to investing in the sports marketplace.

Sports Insights is a leader in sports betting information and has developed the Sports Investing Index as a benchmark of contrarian sports betting approaches.

After several months of gains in baseball, the contrarian approach used in the Index — and Sports Insights Square Plays — had a difficult month.

I also pointed out that Nigerian manufacturing was already in recession by then and noted that «all major macroeconomic indices are trending negative» including inflation, FX and capital markets, and jobs and warned that «the Nigerian economy exhibits recessionary conditions with Q2 growth approaching one - third of the level just one year earlier» and counselled that «the slide to an actual recession may still be averted with a strong economic team and sound policy».

[132] An alternative approach is to use the wisdom of the crowd and base a prediction on betting activity: the Sporting Index column below covers bets on the number of seats each party will win with the midpoint between asking and selling price, while FirstPastThePost.net aggregates the betting predictions in each individual constituency.

The capital gains came from Hawkins selling shares in a stock index mutual fund to buy shares in a bond index mutual fund in order to balance his retirement savings as he approached retirement.

«Improving rice processing is one of two approaches we're working on to combat widespread malnutrition; the second involves fine - tuning rice species to express more iron and other important nutritional minerals in the grain core during growth and during soaking, which can also reduce the glycaemic index (GI) of white rice.

This approach allowed them to create a metabolic index for each species, which sets clearly defined limits for oxygen - breathing sea life: «Marine animals like eelpouts, rock crabs and Atlantic cod can only survive in environments with enough oxygen for them to increase their metabolism to between two and five times their resting metabolic rate if need be.

«If you have a light pulse that's approaching the perturbation from behind, that is trying to catch up to it, it will feel an increase in refractive index that will slow it down,» Faccio says.

Theoretically, Google could have hired thousands of humans to read all the pages in its index (there are around 4 billion), but that approach is prohibitively expensive.

The new approach, published today in the International Journal of Stroke, can quantify visible brain injury from cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) and brain atrophy by translating the million plus bits of information stored in brain scans into a single measure, the «brain health index.»

A recent study by Drs. Thaler, O'Malley, Weinstein and other colleagues at Penn found that the TORS approach achieved a significant reduction in the apnea - hypopnea index (AHI)(an index used to assess the severity of sleep apnea), a significant improvement in minimum arterial oxygen saturation (the amount of oxygen in your blood that maintains healthy organ functioning), and a significant improvement in daytime drowsiness in patients.

This approach allowed the researchers to identify Earth ecosystems that responded quite sensitively to changes in climate parameters, as opposed to those that did not — deriving a «vegetation sensitivity index» across the planet.

They had each participant lose about 10 to 15 percent of their body weight, then put them on three different maintenance diets — low - fat (with about 60 percent of daily calories coming from carbs); low - glycemic - index (with about 40 percent of daily intake from carbs that cause only moderate spikes in blood sugar, such as legumes and vegetables); and a very low - carb approach, with just 10 percent of daily calories from carbs.

Current evidence from studies in rodents and humans suggests that IER is capable of promoting weight - loss and / or favourably influencing an array of cardiometabolic health indices, with equal or greater efficacy than conventional continuous ER approaches.

All the foods are portion controlled and rely on a balanced approach by offering low glycemic index eating, to control blood sugar, that is high in protein and fiber, for satiety.

Ranked as one of the top five innovative nations in The Global Innovation Index, Sweden has taken a much more hard hitting approach, embracing technology — specifically digital assessment and grading solutions — to reduce teacher workload and free up time for all important teacher - learner discussion and engagement.

The lack of teachers of color in classrooms was a problem that CAP first highlighted in the 2011 report «Teacher Diversity Matters,» which included a new approach — the teacher diversity index — that ranked states on the percentage - point difference between teachers of color and students of color.

Given these trends, we decided to revisit the issue of teacher diversity, and we calculated again our groundbreaking «Teacher Diversity Index,» an approach we pioneered in our first paper that ranks states on the percentage - point difference between teachers of color and students of color.

Each index fund's prospectus explains its approach to selecting investments, in addition to its expense ratio, historical returns, risk profile, and other required information about the fund.

Features An Interview With David Lindsay, Portfolio Manager, Galaxy II U.S. Treasury Index Fund Feature: Tracking the government: A low - cost approach to investing in Treasuries.

Coppock Curve — Momentum indicator, initially intended to identify bottoms in stock indices as part of a long - term trading approach.

They also seem to be catching on here: the three - year - old Horizons S&P / TSX 60 Index ETF (HXT), the first to use a swap structure, is now approaching $ 1 billion in assets.

The iShares S&P / TSX Canadian Preferred Share Index ETF (TSX: CPD), one of the longest - trading preferred share ETFs on the market, experienced slumps approaching 30 % in 2008 during the financial crisis and again in 2014 - 15.

In the last two weeks two mainstays of the British and global business press — The Economist and the Financial Times have argued strongly that indexing as an investment approach will overtake active management.

The ETNs use a systematic approach to investing in volatility index (VIX) futures that have a net long or net short volatility position that varies based on changes in the market.