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Just what is index investing? Nothing more than buying all the stocks that make up an index in an effort to replicate in your own portfolio the index's gains or losses. Now some market analysts are finding an insidious side to this seemingly logical procedure. The knock is that index funds are a perpetual investment machine, mindlessly buying the stocks that constitute the index, so as cash rolls in, the index moves higher, without regard for the prices being paid. Critics say the Dow Jones industrial average, which passed 8000 last week, did so well ahead of its rightful...
...significantly, victory wasn't assured until after Vice President Gore concluded two weeks ago that the Administration had no political alternative to backing her and Clinton endorsed that view. Gore's public silence during the deliberations had struck environmentalists as ominous: not only is the environment Gore's personal portfolio, it's also an issue he's expected to flog during his presidential bid. Beyond that, Gore has personal ties to Browner: she worked on his Senate staff during the early 1980s, helping write some of the environmental laws she now administers...
Wilson often told Connerly that he should leave the safe haven of government and "go into business for yourself." Connerly already had. While still working for the state, he managed to build up a large portfolio of single-family homes, which he rented out. He and a partner bought and renovated a boarded-up apartment complex called Strawberry Manor and leased it to the Sacramento city housing authority. (A 1972 state investigation cleared him of conflict-of-interest charges.) After Wilson left Sacramento to run for mayor of San Diego, Connerly spent two years as a deputy director...
Compensation of managers is based in large part on the performance of each financial manager's class of endowment funds--domestic and foreign securities, emerging markets, high-yield securities, etc.--relative to an internal benchmark, known as the Policy Portfolio...
...cannot take as much risk as in the S&P 500," Meyer said. "We have to have a more diversified portfolio...