Exchange-traded fund weighting strategies are starting to really matter for investors. Longtime market watcher and Wharton School professor Jeremy Siegel has argued for decades that investors should ...

The market cap-based weighting methodology of the S&P 500 index has long been the source of the index's popularity as a benchmark among market participants. Indeed, the ability to passively track this ...

The historical capture ratios (Exhibit 2) show that the S&P 500 Revenue-Weighted Index has typically participated one-for-one in up markets, 1 while delivering significant outperformance during down ...

During the five-year period ending April 30, 2014, the Guggenheim S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF (NYSE Arca: RSP) returned 21.84% on an annualized basis. Over the same period of time, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF ...

The stock market, like any other market, is simply the sum of all transactions for shares of publicly listed companies, millions of which are conducted every day. Hour by hour, minute by minute, ...

BEIJING, May 15 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund said on Saturday it has increased the weighting of the dollar and Chinese yuan in its review of the currencies that make up the valuation of ...

In a Policy Forum, Brian Prest and colleagues discuss how new regulatory guidelines from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), known as Circular A-4, could impact the social cost of carbon ...

Most investors reach for a broad, market-value-weighted bond fund to fill the bond portion of their portfolio. While no weighting approach is perfect, market-value weighting often provides the most ...