Not exact matches
Index funds are sometimes referred to as «passive» mutual funds —
because they take a hands - off
approach to investing.
Policy - makers, educators, and parents need to take those changes into account, Steinberg says,
because our current
approaches are leaving teens at the bottom of the misery
index.
Tracking error: ETFs possibly underperform the
index or benchmark they are tracking over the longer term
because of the impact of fees and other costs The tracking error varies between different ETFs depending on the
approach chosen to replicate the
index.
On surface, this may cause concerns to some investors if the fund is only judged by its return
because OAKBX could appear to be lagging S&P 500
Index due to the value
approach and the large investment in fixed income equities.
More subtly, the
approach might not work as well as indicated when implemented using
index funds or exchange - traded funds
because such funds don't exactly track the
indexes they follow in practice.
(Investors can also take a more relaxed
approach because the three earnings - based portfolios still outperformed the
index by more than four percentage points per year when they were rebalanced annually instead of monthly.)
Because of the passive,
index - based nature of most ETPs, we call this innovative
approach an absolute assessment of performance.
We call this
approach «Countercyclical
Indexing ™»
because it is a low fee, tax efficient and diversified strategy designed to match an investor's profile to the changes in the business cycle as stocks tend to become riskier late in market cycles and less risky early in market cycles.
Additionally, this
approach means that an allocation to a given sector or country is not forced just
because they are heavily weighted within the
index.
Because investing in low - cost stock
index funds is the most mindful investing
approach, DRIPs of individual company stocks may not be a useful option.
Managers of an
index or passive
approach believe it's difficult to outthink the market
because markets are highly efficient — at any moment, prices reflect what is known about each security.
This
approach appeals to me
because it feels like I'm following «an
index of
indexes».
Scattering may also drive the distribution over polarizations toward an equilibrium (which would be, at any given frequency and direction, constant over polarizations so long as the real component of the
index of refraction is independent of polarization) Interactions wherein photons are scattered by matter with some exchange of energy will eventually redistribute photons toward a Planck - function distribution — a blackbody spectrum — characteristic of some temperature, and
because the exchange involves some other type of matter, the photon gas temperature (brightness temperature) will
approach the temperature of the material it is interacting with -LRB-?