Index Funds-Construction and Performance Measurement

An index fund is an investment vehicle which mimics a stock-market index and thus exhibits market risk only. Fund managers can passively invest in index funds and concentrate on actively managing the remainder of their funds. This paper looks in detail at the use of statistical selection methods in...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of the Operational Research Society 1989-10, Vol.40 (10), p.871-879
Hauptverfasser: Meade, Nigel, Salkin, Gerald R.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:An index fund is an investment vehicle which mimics a stock-market index and thus exhibits market risk only. Fund managers can passively invest in index funds and concentrate on actively managing the remainder of their funds. This paper looks in detail at the use of statistical selection methods in the construction of these funds. The measurement of the ability of these funds to track the underlying index is examined. Emphasis is placed on the relevance of the horizon of the investor to the choice of measure of tracking error. Four different methods of index-fund construction are described and applied to Japanese stock-market data. The tracking abilities of the constructed funds, both in and out of sample, are compared and contrasted.
ISSN:0160-5682
1476-9360
DOI:10.1057/jors.1989.155