Sentences with phrase «other than index»

What are people's thoughts on advisors that recommend anything other than index funds?

You certainly have no obligation to read anything other than index - cheerleading from Vanguard Fund - sellers, unless you wish to fully fulfill your blog's subtitile which reads, «Helping (Readers) Invest and Prosper».

Not exact matches

The index is now trading at 20.2 times earnings, which, other than during the recession, is the highest it's been in a decade.

China already represents about a quarter of the index, a far bigger share than any other country.

Authors of The Fundamental Index: A Better Way to Invest, they found that building indexes based purely on market cap produced worse returns than indexes based on other measures.

It also means that over the next year, Apple will be paying more back in dividends than any other publicly traded company, beating out oil giant Exxon Mobil for the position, according to Howard Siliverblatt, veteran market watcher and senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

Consumer price index (2000 = 100) Central Bank rates (various sources other than OECD as of mid-July 2007) Purchasing power parities, % change

The annual relationships index found Canadians» relationship with grocers is stronger than with brands in any other category surveyed since 2016, including banks and airlines.

It has become more likely for stock prices to make large swings — on the order of 3 percent or 4 percent — than it has been in any other time in recent stock market history, according to an analysis by The New York Times of price changes in the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock market index since 1962.

According to White and Grantham, a portfolio composed of 50 percent energy and metals, 50 percent all other equities, had a standard deviation that's 35 percent lower than the S&P 500 Index.

The effect of equal weighting is keener for XRT than for some other equal - weight funds because XRT draws retail stocks from the broad S&P Total Market Index, not the large - cap - oriented S&P 500.

Thirty years ago, index funds were less than one percent of assets under management, and today they (along with other passive vehicles such as exchange - traded funds) are about one - third.

I plan: 5 % — swing for the fences 10 % — save for big blue chip bargain buys that pop up throughout the year 10 % — VNQ, other than our primary residence, I have no exposure to RE, so this should help with that 15 % — VXUS, international index exposure 60 % — VTI, total stock market index (as I get older, I will be also adding BND or a bond fund, but at 32, I'm working on building equities!)

Within program expenses, major transfers to persons were up $ 1.1 billion, primarily due to higher old age security payments, reflecting an increase in the number of recipients and higher inflation, as benefits are indexed to quarterly changes in the consumer price index, major transfers to other levels of government were up $ 0.6 billion, reflecting legislative increases; while direct program expenses declined by $ 0.2 billion, as lower «other transfer» payments more than offset increases in departmental / agency operating costs.

In fact, sectors within a market often have much lower correlation to each other than the broad market index does to its global counterparts.

Comprising more than 20 % of the S&P 500 Index this year based on market capitalization, the Technology sector frequently drives the index's performance, and has generated roughly 150 % of the returns of any other single sector in Index this year based on market capitalization, the Technology sector frequently drives the index's performance, and has generated roughly 150 % of the returns of any other single sector in index's performance, and has generated roughly 150 % of the returns of any other single sector in 2017.

Other than the employment report, the major number last week was the Purchasing Managers Index from the NAPM.

More than just tempering Gross's anti-equity remarks, the longtime advocate of buying and holding equity - based index funds and ETFs went so far as to say that «equities today are more attractive relative to bonds than at any other time in history.»

They pay better dividends than the Index and every other sector barring telecoms.

Other than that, my current investment portfolio is heavily focused on index funds because of its historical performance and tax & cost efficiency.

We have a higher threshold for accessibility than other index providers because of the size and diversity of our emerging markets investor base.

The Nasdaq remains much stronger than the other major global indices, with the S&P 500 only bouncing back to the key 2735 level despite the two - day short squeeze and today's pre-market rally.

The November 2013 Wells Fargo / Gallup Investor and Retirement Optimism Index survey found investors more confident in the stock market than in other aspects of the economy; still, fewer than four in 10 said the stock market is an excellent or good way for average Americans to grow their assets.

3 The iBoxx US dollar corporate bond index, for example, comprises more than 4,200 bonds from 1,200 issuers (associated with 900 companies), all with varying credit ratings, coupons and other structural features; see Tierney and Thakkar (2015).

The higher return that you gain when you are trading using the IG index platform make it a lot easier to make money than what it is using other platforms with a lower return.

«Positive rating actions could occur if the company diversified its product offerings into more creditworthy product lines, resulting in sales growth in products other than fixed indexed annuities,» A.M. Best analysts said.

The two indices have tracked each other closely during recent years, with the All Ordinaries rising only slightly faster than the ASX 200 since their lows in March 2003.

Like we said, if you're going to be investing in index funds, there is no reason to go with anyone other than Vanguard.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Information Technology is on the other end of the spectrum at less than 2 % of the S&P Dividend Aristocrats Index.

With the exception of second quarter 2014, fixed index annuity (FIA) sales were «greater this quarter than in any other second quarter in the history of the product line,» said Sheryl J. Moore, president and CEO of both Wink Inc. and Moore Market Intelligence.

On the other hand, the positive and periodic dividends flowing from the DGI method allows you to maintain a higher equity allocation than a typical stock / non-stock index portfolio.

The Balanced Asset Class Index which included large caps, small caps, value stocks and bonds fared much better than the all - stock options and outperformed the other options over the full cycle 4 out of 5 times.

The lack of substantial bullish follow - through in leading individual stocks in recent weeks, the absence of leadership in most ETFs (other than international ETFs), and the bearish pattern on the weekly chart of the S&P 500 Index (below) are all valid reasons to avoid the long side of the market now.

According to the latest Skyscraper Index from Knight Frank, office rents in London's skyscrapers are rising faster than those in any other global city.

Without ascribing value to the company's non-earning assets, which include messaging platforms WhatsApp and Messenger (among others), Facebook is trading at less than 15x next year's earnings (excluding net cash), a discount to the S&P 500 Index.

Roughly half of the ETFs have a higher correlation to treasury bonds and the other half to the S&P 500 Index (i.e., CWB — convertible bonds, JNK — high yield corporate, PFF — preferred stock and XLU — utilities all react to interest rates but are more correlated to the stock market than to treasury bonds).

The biggest potential problem is that sitting through underperformance is very difficult, which is obviously true of anything other than a plain - vanilla index.

Other than the number of indices offered, Redwood Capital is the definite winner in this one.

In other words, most investors in actively managed mutual funds with «professional money managers» (who regularly bought and sold stocks) had worse returns than investors who stuck with unmanaged index funds.

The national survey used an index of evangelical belief (as opposed to membership in an evangelical denomination), which showed that holding these beliefs was more strongly associated with the viewing of religious programs than any other single factor, including contributing to or attending church, participation in community activities, income, age or sex.

The national survey used the «literalist / charismatic» index of evangelical belief (as opposed to membership in an evangelical denomination), which showed that holding these beliefs was more strongly associated with the viewing of religious programs than any other single factor — including attending church, contributing to a church, participating in community activities, income, age, or sex.

There is on one side of this coin the students» tendency to attend lectures which they need for their examinations; on the other side is the fact that there is strong political support for Küng among the students (there was a huge rally and torchlight parade last December on the night following the Roman edict to withdraw his missio canonica), and for many students, both Protestant and Catholic, the issues in the Küng case are larger than the man himself, Küng's status at the university is not dependent on the number of students who come to his lectures (nor on the number of his doctoral students), but the fall semester will be some index of the viability of this new «third track» in theology.

Ricki: Well, apart from all the foolproof recipes, full chapter on ingredients and substitutions, step - by - step instructions and stellar photos by Celine Saki... the book also offers vegan and gluten - free recipes that are lower on the glycemic index than most other baked goods.

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

It has a low glycemic index and tastes sweeter than other sweeteners so you don't have to use as much.

Dates are high in fiber and other nutrients, and significantly lower on the Glycemic Index than other whole food sweeteners.

It is also reported to have a lower glycemic index than other sweeteners on the market, and is often considered to be a healthful addition to vegetarian, vegan, whole food, paleo, ketogenic, and gluten - free diets.

I also really like that they're high in fiber and have a lower glycemic index than lots of other dried fruits.

Not only does the sweet potato have a lower glycemic index than the traditional white potato (meaning it will be deployed as energy to your body at a more steady state), it is also packed with other nutrition that benefits athletes including vitamins A and C, manganese, calcium, potassium, iron, vitamin B6 and fiber.