pre-merger plan offerings of BP America and Amoco The Defined Contribution Plans offered at Amoco has an index-oriented‚ passive management nature. The plans‚ known as Core investment options‚ feature funds closely matched to S&P 500 and the Lehman Brothers Aggregate Bond Index. The advantage that Core investment option has is low management fees‚ which is 10% and even lower than that of publicly traded index mutual funds. Another feature of the Amoco DC plan is heavy investment in the company stock. In December
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populations present in an ecosystem. In an ecological survey designed to measure species diversity‚ a wildlife biologist might determine the number of individuals of each species present in an area‚ then calculate a "diversity index" for the area. Comparison of the diversity index with that of other areas provides insights into the species diversity and the health of the ecosystem. In this activity your "ecosystem" will be the school parking lot or a natural area on a field trip‚ and the "species"
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power. • That is exactly the job of a statistic called the consumer price index (CPI). • The CPI is used to monitor changes in the cost of living over time. When the CPI rises‚ the typical family has to spend more to maintain the same standard of living. • Inflation describes a situation in which the economy’s overall price level is rising. Economists measure the inflation rate by the consumer price index THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX • The CPI is a measure of the overall cost of the goods and services
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15 Index Numbers Structure: 15.1 Introduction Learning Objectives 15.2 Definition of an Index Number Relative Classification of index numbers Base year and current year Chief characteristics of index numbers Main steps in the construction of index numbers 15.3 Methods of Computation of Index Numbers Unweighted index numbers Weighted index numbers 15.4 Tests for Adequacy of Index Number Formulae 15.5 Cost of Living Index Numbers of Consumer Price Index Utility of consumer price index numbers
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Yachts‚ the Bledsoe S&P 500 Index Fund‚ the Bledsoe Small-Cap Fund‚ the Bledsoe Large-Company Stock Fund‚ the Bledsoe Bond Fund‚ and the Bledsoe Money Market Fund. You have decided that you should invest in a diversified portfolio‚ with 70 percent of your investment in equity‚ 25 percent in bonds‚ and 5 percent in the money market fund. You have also decided to focus your equity investment on large-cap stocks‚ but you are debating whether to select the S&P 500 Index Fund or the Large-Company Stock
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Case for Index Fund Portfolios Investors holding only index funds have a better chance for success Authors RICHARD A. FERRI‚ CFA Portfolio Solutions®‚ LLC ALEX C. BENKE‚ CFP ® Betterment June 2013 A Case for Index Fund Portfolios EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The success of index investing in individual asset class categories has been widely documented. However‚ surprisingly little research is available that compares the performance of diversified portfolios of index funds with
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purpose is to test the sensory threshold of a human body. To say it in terms that are easier to understand‚ we are testing how accurate certain points are on a body with response to touch. We are using three points on the body‚ the forearm‚ palm‚ and index finger. With these three points we will be testing to see how sensitive each point on the body is by measuring the distance of which we can feel one or two points. The part of the brain that allows us to feel‚ the somatosensory cortex‚ is mapped out
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The Pros and Cons of Passive Management Ever since the introduction of passive index funds in the mid-1970s‚ there has been an ongoing debate over the merits of active versus passive management of pension fund assets. Each year articles chronicle the relative rise and fall in popularity of each approach to portfolio management. The advantages and disadvantages of each approach vary with the size of the portfolio as well as with the characteristics of the asset classes. In fact‚ there may be a place
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explained to me and did this project with me in group. INTRODUCTION TO INDEX NUMBERS An index number is an economic data figure reflecting price or quantity compared with a standard or base value. The base usually equals 100 and the index number is usually expressed as 100 times the ratio to the base value. For example‚ if a commodity costs twice as much in 1970 as it did in 1960‚ its index number would be 200 relative to 1960. Index numbers are used especially to compare business activity‚ the cost
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ratio. The Herfindahl index‚ another indicator of firm size‚ has a fair amount of correlation to the concentration ratio. The four-firm concentration ratio is an indicator of the size (as measured by output or sales) of the four largest firms within an industry‚ compared to the output of the entire industry. It is determined as follows: CR4=(X1+X2+X3+X4)/T where Xn is the output of the nth largest firm and T is the total output of the industry. The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) is a market concentration
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