Sentences with phrase «of stock index»

The downside is that you still essentially have a fixed annuity, and the gains you can make in the contract due to the performance of the stock index are fairly small.

The cash values in the index account participate indirectly in the upward movement of a stock index without accepting the normal risk associated with investing in the stock market.

With a flexible premium and cash values that can grow based on the rise of a stock index or guaranteed interest rate, universal life insurance policies offer a tool for both death benefits and cash value accumulation.

But one can look at the composition of any stock index, like the DJIA, to see how the economy has changed over time — very few companies stay members for many decades.

We present a simple dynamical model of stock index returns which is grounded on the ability of the Cyclically Adjusted Price Earning (CAPE) valuation ratio devised by Robert Shiller to predict long - horizon performances of the market.

The first, Value Matters: Predictability of Stock Index Returns, by Natascia Angelini, Giacomo Bormetti, Stefano Marmi, and Franco Nardini examines the ability of the CAPE to predict long - run stock market performance over several different periods in developed markets like the U.S., Belgium, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.

Thanks to Greenbackd for finding this, along with another paper («Value Matters: Predictability of Stock Index -LSB-...]

The price of stock index futures can be calculated in three ways namely price weighted index, capitalization weighted index and composite index.

This amount of cash is equal to the difference between the closing price of the stock index and the exercise price of the option expressed in dollars times a specified multiple.

Settlement of a stock index futures contract may or may not be in the underlying instrument or index.

A futures contract provides for the future sale by one party and purchase by another party of a specified amount of a specific financial instrument (e.g., units of a stock index) for a specified price, date, time and place designated at the time the contract is made.

The purchase of stock index options involves the risk that the premium and transaction costs paid by a Fund in purchasing an option will be lost as a result of unanticipated movements in prices of the securities comprising the stock index on which the option is based.

And then I also recently started a travel fund for my son and I and I have that in — well that one's a more conservative mix of stock index funds and bond index funds.

Therefore, the return of all of the individuals before any expenses or taxes must equal the return of the stock index, since they are the same universe.

The value of a share of a stock index is determined by the productivity of the economy in which the companies operate.

The Fund's use of stock index futures involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments.

As a seller (writer) of a put option or call option, the Fund will lose money if the value of the stock index futures falls below or rises above the respective option's strike price.

For example, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF, stock symbol SPY, owns all of the stocks listed in the S&P 500 stock index and the fund will mirror the value changes of the stock index.

However, stocks have been doing well, so the value of the stock index funds in your portfolio have grown.

In order to bring your portfolio's asset allocation back into balance, you sell some of your stock index fund shares and use the proceeds to buy more bond funds.

Microscopic Research on the Macro-stability Mechanism of Stock Index Futures: the Empirical Analysis of HS300 Stock Index Futures» Inhibition on Positive Feedback Trading

The first, Value Matters: Predictability of Stock Index Returns, by Natascia Angelini, Giacomo Bormetti, Stefano Marmi, and Franco Nardini examines the ability of the CAPE to predict long - run stock market performance over several different periods in developed markets like the -LSB-...]

Investors look at the value of the stock index and can quickly determine how well the stock market is doing rather than having to look up every stock on...

When a declining number of stocks are participating in the move higher of a stock index, it is a bearish signal.

The value of stock index futures varies in direct proportion to changes in these indexes.

His point was that he considered all of his stock index funds as his emergency fund and the money can be accessed within 2 or 3 days at most if something happens.

It has done so well, that only 10 other current members of the stock index have done better.

In August, the investment firm Richard Bernstein Advisors compared the performance of the average investor — based on the monthly flows of money in and out of mutual funds — against a variety of stock indexes, commodities and other asset classes over a 20 - year period ending Dec. 31, 2013.

The U.S. Natural Resources Defense Council announces a partnership with FTSE Group, a leading creator of stock indexes, and BlackRock, the world's largest asset...

Presentations on topics such as (a) the relationships among price movements of stock indexes, the CBOE Volatility Index ® (VIX ®), and the India VIX Index, and (b) new studies on fund use of options and volatility - based strategies, will be delivered by me to continuing - education meetings of the Indian Association of Investment Professionals (IAIP) in the cities -LSB-...]

It was done by an intern of mine who is very highly qualified and it was written in July of 2004 titled, An Investigation into the Relationship between Changes in Yield Curve and the Performance of Stock Indices.

The extent of the initial plunge raised new fears that some investors who tend to track past price movements of stock indexes would conclude that the nine - year - old bull market has run its course, making the recovery later in the day somewhat important from that perspective.

But in a shift to exotic funds, NYCERS has moved money out of stock indexes and core bonds, dropping from 71 percent in 2000 to 39 percent last year.

Using historical performance of stock indices as a basis, a portfolio comprised solely of ETFs may limit the portfolio's exposure to the price fluctuations affecting individual stocks.

There are different types of stock indexes that deal with dividends differently.

«If the stock market drops by roughly 20 per cent or more,» he adds, «I'll rebalance by selling some of my bond index to buy some of my stock indexes.»

Here's where the beauty of stock indexes come in.

Sponsors of stock indexes do from time to time change the stocks that make up the index, however, and they do tinker with the rules for calculating the index.

The most common types of stock indexes are market value - weighted (S&P 500) and price - weighted indexes (Dow Jones).

Sponsors of stock indexes do from time to time change the stocks that make up the index, but generally only when the market weighting of stocks changes.

FXCM offers traders the opportunities to trade many instruments such as 39 different pairs of currency pairs, 18 types of commodities CFDs and 12 market indices and dozens of stock indices through its wide selections of trading platforms.

Sponsors of stock indexes do from time to time change the stocks that make up the index, but generally only when the market weighting of stocks change.

Past posts and future hosts can be found on our Festival of Stocks index page.

You can see the result of this compounding of unrealized price gains in the long - term charts of stock indexes.

Every financial website displays key barometers to track global stock performance around the world at a glance — in the form of stock indexes.

Past posts and future hosts can be found on our Festival of Stocks index page for those of you interested in reviewing the archives.

An extensive number and variety of stock indexes exist.

Both earnings and P / E multiples determine the level of stock indexes.

(To learn more about index investing, read our Index Investing Tutorial, The ABCs Of Stock Indexes and How Stock Market Indexes Changed Investing.)

Past posts and future hosts can be found on ourFestival of Stocks index page for those of you interested in reviewing the archives.