INVESTMENTS(LL)W/CONNECT
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ISBN: 9781260433920
Author: Bodie
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
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Chapter 2, Problem 15PS
Summary Introduction
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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