Market-cap-weighted indexes have their benefits. Funds that track cap-weighted indexes cut back on turnover and the related trading costs. They also grasp the market’s collective opinion of each stock ...
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 ...
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 ...
This study tests the feasibility of projecting commercial insurance demographic information to the US Census population, and creating the framework for a simple weighting scheme. ABSTRACTObjectives: ...
Seeking Alpha describes this ETF as: The investment seeks investment results that generally correspond to the price and yield performance of the NASDAQ-100 Index®. To maintain the correspondence ...
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 ...
Although investors spend a great deal of time on stock selection, academic research has shown that aggregate characteristics of a diversified portfolio or index are often the primary drivers of risk ...