Investments
Investments
11th Edition
ISBN: 9781259277177
Author: Zvi Bodie Professor, Alex Kane, Alan J. Marcus Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 2, Problem 15PS
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To determine:

The problems that a mutual fund trying to have an index fund tied to an equally weighted index of a broad stock market would confront.

Introduction:

A barometer of the economic performance is the stock market index. An increase in the index indicates good revenues, more profitability and better capital investments which in return promise a strongly growing economy. On the other hand a declining index signals a weak economy or weakening economic activity. Since 1896, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been computed for 30 large blue chip companies.

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