Sentences with phrase «replicate market averages»

Fortunately, Mr. Fama's work on efficient markets did a favor for the small investor: it spawned low - cost index funds that replicate market averages.

«Why waste your time trying to select and manage a portfolio of individual stocks when you can replicate the market average returns (and beat the majority of professional money managers) through an exceptionally underrated and underused investment fund called an index fund?»

Not exact matches

The results below are specific to methods we actually use, but I expect that they could be broadly replicated using any basic combination of valuations (say, Shiller PEs), and market action (say, moving averages or breadth measures).

Based upon the above, and assuming 2014 may replicate the average performance of the 2000 and 2008 bear markets, the Dow Index could conceivably decline to about 12300 by yearend (2014).

A portfolio strategy whereby the fund manager does not replicate the market exactly but sticks fairly close to the market weightings by industry sector, country or region or by the average market capitalization.

This type of mutual fund replicates the performance of a broad market index such as the S&P 500 or Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA).

Although these average returns may not accurately represent the holdings in VTSMX or your replicated portfolio and the average returns statistics for each market cap may represent slightly different holdings than those of the Vanguard funds, these nuances don't pose a problem in this example because I'm using the same benchmark to estimate the returns on VTSMX and the replicated portfolio.