Word: indexation
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...part of Los Angeles--based Capital Group Cos., zoomed past star-centric Fidelity Investments this year in total managed assets through September--$738 billion for American Funds, $716 billion for Fidelity. The company is on track next year to topple kingpin Vanguard ($774 billion), which rode the popularity of index funds to surpass Fidelity in 2003. American Funds has quietly become home to six of the 10 largest stock funds in the U.S.--including the biggest of them all, the $117 billion Growth Fund of America. More than $1 of every $3 plunked into a fund these days goes...
...size problem became evident in the '90s, investors began shifting to index funds, where good ideas don't matter. Index funds buy all stocks in a benchmark like the S&P 500 or any of hundreds of others. They guarantee market-matching returns, are hugely popular and make sense for most people. That makes the heady growth at American Funds all the more noteworthy: the company offers not a single index fund, dismissing them as vehicles for guaranteed mediocrity. "We think you can do better," says Jim Rothenberg, one of nine managers of Growth Fund of America. What's more...
King Jigme Singye Wangchuck of Bhutan is trying to abolish himself. The enlightened monarch of this tiny Himalayan kingdom, who has introduced such innovations as the use of a Gross National Happiness index to measure Bhutan's wealth, is now urging his people to get rid of him. "Monarchy is not the best form of government," he said last month at a stop on his anti-royalty campaign in the northern town of Haa. "It has many flaws...
...always a concern in observational research. She said, though, that she was confident in the integrity of her conclusions. “We controlled for lifestyle factors—a fairly large number of variables that indicated particular lifestyles, such as physical activity and body-mass index,” she said. She said the alternative to an observational study, a randomized trial, would be impractical given the nature of breast-feeding. Meir Stampfer, chair of HSPH’s Department of Epidemiology and a member of Michels’ research group, said that he found the study?...
...think I really cared about them and their event, which was important because they were women with things to give up. Besides, I figured the gift bags were full of Tootsie Rolls, fake tattoos and those evil wicker tubes that would cost me weeks of work by getting my index fingers stuck together...