Sentences with phrase «risk than index»

Considering the fact that the clear majority of active funds have less risk than index funds, this is a horrible comparison.

Not exact matches

Pinkerton will publish an overall risk index annually, which covers more than 60 countries, while clients can receive daily updates.

The fact that this ratio is now at the bottom band for most broadly defined stock indices suggests that the risk of continued underperformance by the broad market - versus large - cap indices - is substantially less than it was on April 5th, or even June 30th, when the most recent downdraft started.

We still have some exposure to «basis risk» - the risk that our stocks perform differently than the indices we use to hedge, but given that both the broad market and some of our industry group holdings are oversold relative to the S&P 100, I believe that the some of this potential for basis risk was reduced by the recent decline.

It offers the potential to earn more money than, say, a bank certificate of deposit or a money market account, and the index options give the client some flexibility in how much downside risk there will be.

For example, a risk index of 1.30 for a fund indicates that it is 30 % more volatile than the typical fund in its category and should therefore have a higher return than average.

Ten million randomly picked portfolios performed better over four decades, once the risk taken was considered, than an index based on the size of the companies included on it, which is how tracker funds select shares.»

The modest change to our hedge is intended to maintain our downside protection while hopefully producing a little bit less day - to - day discomfort on days when Wall Street suddenly goes «risk on» and chases banks, financials, materials, and high - debt cyclicals, all of which we hold with smaller weight than the major indices reflect.

Yes the Index - linked fund is more susceptible to interest rate risk than the regular bond fund, but not by the nature of it being a linker, it's because the average duration is longer.

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.

An Indexed Universal Life (IUL) insurance policy functions similarly to a standard universal life policy, except that it accumulates value through investments in a stock market index rather than the typical low - risk investments that most dividend - paying policies use to grow.

Work to reduce the risks in your dividend portfolio rather than attempting to do something (like beat the index) with DGI that it is not intended to do, though it can happen; as the Ned Davis study showed (summary chart follows).

Google Finance reveals Vanguard managed market beating returns with less risk, as Vanguard's fund has a listed beta of.82, making it less volatile than the S&P 500 index.

By purchasing these companies after a price decline, we find we are able to control risk in the portfolio as these investments often have less downside while offering a decent potential return.The U.S. Equity Fund seeks to invest in companies with a lower Price to Book Ratio, lower Price to Earnings Ratio and higher Dividend Yield than the S&P 500 index.

As the chart below shows, a hypothetical balanced index portfolio that hasn't been rebalanced to policy weights since the bottom of the Great Financial Crisis on March 9, 2009 would look more like a growth portfolio today, exposing the investor to more risk than initially agreed upon.

The lipid ratios evaluated for atherogenic and coronary risk indices in rats administered HPO only were remarkably higher than control.

If only people knew that Millet are 5 times more nutritious than the average rice varieties, has a low glycemic index (studies show they benefit type2 diabetes), cost less, cook faster, aids weight loss, reduces risk of heart disease and more!

What Football Index has done is spread the net and take away a massive proportion of the risk, allowing you to invest money in the futures of individual players, rather than one - time results.

The Superfood for Babies recommendations include: «To encourage companies to improve their policies, practices and accountability, FTSE4Good should, by 2015, extend its criteria for the inclusion of a BMS company on its index to include the company's activities in all countries, rather than just those countries listed as higher risk, and should bring its criteria into line with the International Code and resolutions.

The risk for children breast fed for less than three months of a low psychomotor index was, in contrast, not significantly increased.

Children breast fed for less than three months had a higher risk, compared to children who were breast fed for at least six months, of a lower mental developmental index (OR = 3.2; 95 % CI: 1.7 to 5.9; table 3).

Note: I tried other datasets than CPI but seems most (e.g. Defence corruption risk index) exclude Israel, either specifically or because they focus on OECD.

«Estimating from various studies that looked at increasing BMI and endometrial cancer risk, a woman with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 40 would have approximately eight times greater risk of endometrial cancer than someone with a BMI of 25,» said first author Kristy Ward, MD, the senior gynecologic oncology fellow in the Department of Reproductive Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

A low - glycemic - index diet is better than a low - fat or Atkins diet in terms of improving metabolism and reducing the risk of various chronic diseases

An index finger that's shorter than the ring finger can be a sign of knee osteoarthritis risk, particularly in women, compared with people whose fingers are equal lengths, or who have a longer index finger.

«So rather than being a risk marker, sNGF has the potential to index resilience.»

«Higher body mass index, or BMI, was associated with increased risk of total stroke in every category and the number of ischemic strokes was higher than the number of hemorrhagic stroke in every category.

Overall, the authors found that the rates of low Apgar scores increased with maternal Body Mass Index (BMI): overweight (BMI 25.0 - 29.9) was associated with a 55 % increased risk of low Apgar scores at 5 minutes; obesity grade I (BMI 30 - 34.9) and grade II (BMI 35.0 - 39.9) was associated with a 2-fold increased risk; and obesity grade ΙII (BMI ≥ 40.0) was associated with a more than 3-fold increase in risk.

After adjusting for numerous possible confounding factors, including body mass index and alcohol use, the researchers found that women in the highest quartile of GGT had nearly twice the risk of subsequent gestational diabetes than those in the lowest quartile.

More than half of TKR patients have a body mass index (BMI) within the obesity range (greater than 30 kg / m ²), which has been linked to a higher risk for related comorbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, osteoarthritis; and in some studies, to higher medical costs and longer hospital stays.

After adjusting the data for age, sex, race, education, smoking, alcohol use, blood pressure, diabetes, high blood pressure medication, cholesterol levels, statin use and body mass index, the researchers found that those people who met both the recommended activity levels and had vitamin D levels above 20 nanograms per milliliter experienced about a 23 percent less chance of having an adverse cardiovascular event than those people with poor physical activity who were deficient for vitamin D. On the other hand, people who had adequate exercise but were vitamin D deficient didn't have a reduced risk of an adverse event.

However, the high glycemic index of fruit juice — which passes through the digestive system more rapidly than fiber - rich fruit — may explain the positive link between juice consumption and increased diabetes risk.

In analyses adjusting for known risk factors for diabetes, including age, sex, body mass index, neck circumference, smoking, income status and comorbidities at baseline, patients with an AHI > 30 had a 30 % higher risk of developing diabetes than those with an AHI < 5.

Low stress resilience was associated with an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes after adjusting for body mass index, family history of diabetes, and individual and neighbourhood socioeconomic factors — the 20 % of men with the lowest resistance to stress (scores 1 - 3) were 51 % more likely to have been diagnosed with diabetes than the 20 % with the highest resistance to stress (scores 7 - 9) with diabetes risk decreasing in an approximately linear fashion with increased resistance to stress.

Patients who received NSAIDs were younger, had lower levels of co-exiting illnesses, a lower cardiac risk index and had elective procedures more frequently than those patients who did not receive NSAIDs.

«After adjusting for age, body mass index, exercise status, and smoking status, the risk of hypertension was significantly increased when flushers consumed more than four drinks per week.

Underweight and obese women who also drank alcohol and smoked tobacco had a two-fold higher risk of being diagnosed with asthma than women with a healthy body mass index who did not drink or smoke, a St. Michael's Hospital study found.

Three additional titi monkeys were moved into the at - risk room less than 2 weeks after presentation of the index case, reflecting a total at - risk population of 68 animals.

Even after adjusting for a variety of variables, including smoking, body mass index and pre-existing health ailments, the «definite evening type» was associated with a 10 percent higher risk of mortality than the «definite morning type.»

However, heavy smokers tend to have more adverse cardiovascular risk factors than light smokers (such as higher body mass index and central adiposity and poorer diet).858687 Therefore, light smokers should have characteristics that are more protective against cardiovascular disease, compared with heavier smokers.

The researchers found that those with a higher body mass index (BMI) were at a greater risk of dying during the 10 - year study than normal - weight people.

When the researchers broke the carbs into high and low glycemic index categories, the increased risk was even more apparent: Women who ate the most high glycemic foods had about 2.25 times the risk of developing heart disease than women who consumed the fewest.

The reason is that yet another study has suggested that waist - to - hip ratio is much more sensitive than body mass index (BMI) at predicting risk of subsequent coronary disease.

It is noted that a sodium intake of less than 2 grams per day, which approximates the sodium intake of the paleo diet with no added salt, was associated with a 68 percent increase in cardiovascular disease risk during follow - up of fifty - four months in the study reviewed in the Kresser blog.26 Another study, which excluded subjects with cardiovascular disease, hypertension and diabetes, found that after thirty - three months, the cardiovascular risk of those with daily sodium excretion of 1.9 grams was 36 percent higher after adjustment for body mass index and sex than the risk of those excreting 3 grams.6

There are many risks to carrying many extra pounds, and there are over 50 diseases and medical conditions which affect obese people more than people with a normal body index.

Your waist size is a far more accurate predictor of your heart risks than your body mass index (BMI), so any habit that has the potential to increase your waist size by 500 percent more than someone who does not have that habit is one worth breaking.

A 2005 study in Archives of Internal Medicine reported that raw - foods - diet followers had significantly lower body - mass indices (a measure of body fat) than people consuming a typical American diet; they also had lower bone densities, a risk factor for osteoporosis.

The lipid ratios evaluated for atherogenic and coronary risk indices in rats administered HPO only were remarkably higher than control.

To minimize the confounding effect and test for potential modification by an overall lifestyle pattern, we further performed a stratified analysis according to a priori — defined healthy lifestyle pattern, as characterized by never smoking or ever smoking for fewer than 5 pack - years, never or moderate alcohol intake (< 14 g / d in women and < 28 g / d in men), body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) of at least 18.5 and less than 25.0, and physical activity of at least 150 min / wk at a moderate level or at least 75 min / wk at a vigorous level (equivalent to ≥ 7.5 metabolic equivalent h / wk) as recommended.18 Likewise, given the previous report that protein intake was associated with a higher risk for diabetes - related mortality, 8 we examined the protein - mortality association according to the history of diabetes.

While enhanced index funds may offer an opportunity for higher returns, they typically expose you to the risk of greater losses than their more traditional index funds.