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Apple is opening the doors to its bank vault, saying it will distribute $100 billion in cash to its shareholders by the end of 2015. At the same time, the company said revenue for the current quarter could fall from the year before, which would be the first decline in many years. More

despite his idiosyncratic profile is a measure of. hit a KFC franchise last month, he said the Vanguard Group, a mutual fund giant and a.

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Mutual fund managers use stock indices to benchmark the performance of their funds.

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A mutual funds net asset value, or price per share, is based on the prices of its underlying securities, such as stocks or bonds. Volatility is the extent to which a funds net asset value typically fluctuates. With all else being equal, a highly.

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The best-known application of correlation to measure volatility is probably the R-squared value of a mutual fund. R-squared expresses the correlation between a mutual fund’s price movements against the returns of an index or exchange, showing just how.

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Mutual fund managers use stock indices to benchmark the performance of their funds. Though the objective is to outperform the benchmark index, the portfolios often look very similar to the index. The performances of mutual funds lie on both side of the.

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Mutual fund managers use stock indices to benchmark the performance of their funds. Though the objective is to outperform the benchmark index, the portfolios often look very similar to the index. The performances of mutual funds lie on both side of the.

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CHARLES ROTBLUT: Its always helpful to measure a mutual fund against its peers. By peers I just dont mean category, but also style peers. A large-cap value fund will have different return characteristics than a large-cap growth fund, and certainly.

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Measuring Skill in the Mutual Fund Industry Jonathan B. Berk Jules H. van Binsbergen Stanford University and NBER Stanford University and NBER

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Mutual Funds Center — Get investing strategies, data, and mutual fund news in the Yahoo! Finance Mutual Fund Center. The Fund Screener surfaces low-cost and top.

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DEFINITION of ‘Mutual Fund’ An investment vehicle that is made up of a pool of funds collected from many investors for the purpose of investing in securities such as.

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By Bill Barker. The world of mutual fund performance is complex and daunting. Advertisements in newspapers talk about five-star funds. Banner ads talk about the.

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This article is about mutual funds in the United States. For other forms of mutual investment, see investment fund