Besides weighting, another factor that impacts long-term analysis is the emergence of new products and services.
The equal weighting helps mitigate single company risk while allowing the correlation characteristics to remain prominent.
The main points of contention are: There is no weighting for strength of opposition.
Because of weighting, that would translate into an estimated 51-percent turnout in the November general election.
That compares with a nearly 15% weighting to South Korea in the MSCI Emerging Markets IMI.
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South Africa meanwhile has seen its weighting in VWO increase by a full 100 basis points.
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By June he devised a spreadsheet weighting different factors and using a point system.
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At the moment I have 12% in Japan versus the world's weighting of 10%.
"There's no good weighting system that could be used that is accurate, " says Mr. Cullen.
Durable goods, as in Boeing and Caterpillar, are double-weighted, while technology is half its index weighting.
Geoffrey Roberts, who co-wrote the 1974 Pay Board Report on London Weighting, will act as adviser.
Consider a weighted coin that takes many tosses to determine what side the weighting favors.
India has the second-largest weighting in the small-company fund, just behind Hong Kong, with 25%.
Russell Growth put Exxon in its index recently at a major weighting of 4.8 percent.
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As a result, over weighting New Zealand does not require as large an allocation as other countries.
It will suggest incorporating a leverage ratio into bank-capital requirements, to supplement the existing risk-weighting of assets.
In that case, you would sell enough of the stocks to bring your weighting back to 60%.
Its algorithm attaches an automatic weighting to every data point, according to its consistency with comparable readings.
Two other major sectors have shown sizable declines in weighting since 1991: consumer cyclicals and consumer staples.
This new breed of indexers--not, in fact, indexers, but active strategists--focus on weighting portfolios by so-called fundamental factors.
The chained CPI will take those substitutions into account through a chain-weighting method that varies with consumer spending.
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Disclosures: Our firm has been over weighting countries with the most economic freedom for several years.
Food, which has a one-third weighting in the index, soared the most it has in two years, 11.7%.
And so I would tend to maybe go a little away from cap weighting into looking at GDP.
The fund has about 7% weighting to Gazprom and is below its benchmark index, the MSCI Russia index.
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We recommend having a 5 to 10 percent weighting of gold and gold stocks in your portfolio.
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Between 60% and 70% of those trades were in ETFs, far above their actual weighting in the market.
The weighting of different kinds of foods helps create the kind of nudges that economists describe in markets.
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The average recommended allocation has now slipped four points below the market weighting, with Daiwa the biggest seller.
Only 23% of your Global Fund is in U.S. equities, down from your own benchmark index weighting of 40%.
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