Sentence examples for basket of equities from inspiring English sources
Then there are exchange-traded funds, which trade like stocks and comprise a fixed basket of equities like an index fund.
The most remarkable aspect of 1980 is that if you treat the Dow Jones industrial index as a share of a basket of equities, you could have bought one Dow share with a 1-ounce Krugerrand.
He has invested every month in a basket of equity funds, in good markets and bad, and he has made a fortune doing it.
And while many market prognosticators on Wall Street still thrive in part by claiming that they can offer investments that will consistently beat the market averages, Mr. Fama's well-established theory has influenced the way millions of people now invest, contributing to the popularity of index funds that hold broad, diversified baskets of equities.
FOLIOfn, is an online service (www.foliofn.com) that allows investors to put together their own baskets of equities, buy or sell them when they like and minimize capital gains taxes.
Instead, it is being driven by a fear of being left behind and a belief that exchanges, parochial for too long, need to catch up with the rest of the globalising financial industry.Mr Thain thinks the future belongs to a handful of exchanges offering a basket of products—equities, bonds, exchange-traded funds, futures, options and more across several time zones.
In September it pulled out of equities.
In the last quarter, so-called minimum volatility equity funds that follow a basket of low risk, steadier stocks were popular with investors seeking safe returns.
So-called microfinance investment vehicles typically either resell a basket of debts held by microfinance institutions or make equity investments in lenders directly.
By shorting a basket of stocks to protect against a general drop in equity prices, and then borrowing money to buy particular shares they deemed undervalued, these funds "hedged" their positions so as to prosper whichever way the market moved.
